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Suicide front / Armada / Factory first / OBSERVED BUILD

Standard suicide front

Bot Lab first into Rocketeer/Centurion/Pawn to contest the middle early and hold until T2 arrives, the role's baseline play.

Usually lab first (62%)

#rush · 1185 distinct matches · 125 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 60% of 1411 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Bot Lab by 0:20

  1. Open with mex and wind, drop Bot Lab immediately.
  2. Push out first "Centurion" as Pond's boost lands.
  3. Send "Rocketeer", "Centurion", "Pawn" mix to contest middle.
  4. Add Dragon's Teeth and Sentries to hold the line.
  5. Get Advanced Metal Extractor up as T2 nears.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 1185 GAMES
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
PLAY THE OPENING

Follow the example game's first 6:00 step by step: what to build now, what comes next, and where it goes. At 1× it keeps pace with your own game.

  1. 1

    Bot Lab first

    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab done ~0:20, middle half 0:20–0:33

    Some games also: mex (37%)

  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor5Mex
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Bot3 Con bot
    • Lazarus2 Lazarus
    Army
    • Sentry4 Sentry
    • Rocketeer18 Rocketeer
    • Tick2 Tick
    • Centurion1 Centurion
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: con turret (35%) · pawn (31%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 5 wind

    The example game in this phase · 39 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. Wind
    4. SentrySentry
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Mex
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Mex
    9. SentrySentry
    10. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    11. LazarusLazarus ×2
    12. SentrySentry
    13. Mex
    14. PawnPawn
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. SentrySentry
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. SentrySentry
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. TickTick
    21. Mex
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. SentrySentry
    24. Wind
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    26. SentrySentry
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. Wind
    29. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    30. Wind
    31. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    32. LazarusLazarus
    33. Energy storage
    34. LazarusLazarus
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
    36. CenturionCenturion ×2
    37. RocketeerRocketeer
    38. Converter
    39. Radar TowerRadar Tower
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine17Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Lazarus2 Lazarus
    • Construction Bot1 Con bot
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry
    • Rocketeer8 Rocketeer
    • Pawn1 Pawn

    Some games also: tick (48%) · Radar Tower (47%) · energy storage (46%) · centurion (45%) · Beamer (38%)

    By 10:00 in all: 6 mex · 23 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 82 steps
    1. TickTick
    2. RocketeerRocketeer
    3. SentrySentry
    4. TickTick
    5. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    6. Mex
    7. RocketeerRocketeer
    8. SentrySentry
    9. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    10. CenturionCenturion ×2
    11. TickTick
    12. LazarusLazarus
    13. Construction BotCon bot
    14. TickTick
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. TickTick
    17. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    18. CenturionCenturion
    19. GunslingerGunslingerdone 8:09
    20. Mex
    21. CenturionCenturion
    22. Con turret
    23. CenturionCenturion
    24. GunslingerGunslinger
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×11
    26. GunslingerGunslinger
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    28. Wind
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. Wind
    31. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    32. Mex
    33. Wind
    34. RocketeerRocketeer
    35. Construction BotCon bot
    36. Wind
    37. TickTick ×2
    38. Wind
    39. TickTick ×2
    40. Wind
    41. TickTick ×2
    42. Wind
    43. TickTick
    44. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 12:32
    45. Wind
    46. TickTick ×2
    47. Wind
    48. TickTick ×4
    49. Wind
    50. TickTick ×6
    51. Wind
    52. TickTick
    53. Con turret
    54. TickTick ×2
    55. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    56. TickTick
    57. Wind
    58. TickTick
    59. Con turret
    60. TickTick ×3
    61. Con turret
    62. TickTick
    63. Wind
    64. TickTick ×2
    65. Con turret
    66. GunslingerGunslinger
    67. CenturionCenturion
    68. Con turret
    69. Wind
    70. SentrySentry
    71. Con turret
    72. CenturionCenturion
    73. Wind
    74. Con turret
    75. CenturionCenturion
    76. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    77. CenturionCenturion
    78. Wind
    79. SentrySentry
    80. Wind ×2
    81. TickTick
    82. CenturionCenturion ×3

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Xad's (46 OS, 25/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:10 · in 69% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:30 · in 58% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build, running totals by minute

Metal produced

010k20k30k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Enemy metal destroyed

05k10k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

05k10k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

1411 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088900
3:002056172106
4:003161660486
5:00423614131020
6:00543023271785
7:00666131792732
8:00791040353631
9:00929848164516
10:001068854265336
11:001224158986080
12:001402465176842
13:001604270137523
14:001796976808336
15:002029783029228
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard suicide front play wins slightly more than half its games with fast kills but also fast losses, matching the raw grind of the role.

  • + First kill lands by 2:04 in all games
  • + Metal produced reaches 19882 by 15:00
  • − Own metal lost hits 9208 by 15:00, near metal destroyed of 8172
  • − First unit lost as early as 2:08 in every game
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

Xad

46.3 OS · 25/09/2026

Open source match ↗

47 received units · includes a constructor
212 metal received · 45156 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:20Middle 50%: 0:20–0:33 · n=1405
Advanced Metal Extractor9:37Middle 50%: 8:41–10:48 · n=1035

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