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Standard suicide front

The role's default: factory first (mostly Bot Lab), pushing Rocketeer-led bot play into the middle to contest and hold the front, with an Advanced Metal Extractor around 9:36 as the natural transition.

Usually lab first (63%)

#raid #push · 1289 distinct matches · 127 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 1527 · 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 1289 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 (36%)

  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor5Mex
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Bot3 Con bot
    • Lazarus2 Lazarus
    Army
    • Sentry4 Sentry
    • Rocketeer17 Rocketeer
    • Tick2 Tick
    • Centurion1 Centurion
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: con turret (35%) · pawn (32%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 41 steps
    1. TickTick
    2. LazarusLazarus
    3. CenturionCenturion
    4. SentrySentry
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    6. Mex ×4
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. CenturionCenturion
    9. Mex
    10. SentrySentry
    11. Wind
    12. CenturionCenturion
    13. Wind
    14. LazarusLazarus
    15. Wind
    16. SentrySentry
    17. CenturionCenturion
    18. SentrySentry
    19. Wind
    20. Con turret
    21. Wind
    22. SentrySentry
    23. Energy storage
    24. CenturionCenturion
    25. LazarusLazarus
    26. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×6
    29. Con turret
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    32. RocketeerRocketeer
    33. SentrySentry
    34. RocketeerRocketeer
    35. SentrySentry
    36. RocketeerRocketeer
    37. TickTick
    38. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    39. LazarusLazarus
    40. Con turret
    41. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
  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 (47%) · energy storage (46%) · Radar Tower (46%) · centurion (45%) · Beamer (39%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 68 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    2. Wind
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. Wind
    5. TickTick
    6. LazarusLazarus
    7. Wind
    8. Con turret
    9. Wind
    10. Converter
    11. Mex
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. Wind
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. Wind
    16. RocketeerRocketeer
    17. Wind
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Wind
    20. RocketeerRocketeer
    21. Wind
    22. TickTick
    23. LazarusLazarus
    24. Converter
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    26. Wind
    27. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. Wind
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. Wind
    32. RocketeerRocketeer
    33. TickTick
    34. Wind
    35. LazarusLazarus
    36. Converter
    37. RocketeerRocketeer
    38. Wind
    39. RocketeerRocketeer
    40. Wind
    41. TickTick
    42. LazarusLazarus
    43. Wind
    44. PawnPawn
    45. Wind
    46. Converter
    47. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    48. PawnPawn
    49. Wind ×2
    50. PawnPawn
    51. Wind ×2
    52. Converter
    53. PawnPawn ×3
    54. BeamerBeamer
    55. Wind ×3
    56. BeamerBeamer
    57. Wind
    58. Converter
    59. BeamerBeamer
    60. Wind
    61. BeamerBeamer ×2
    62. Wind
    63. BeamerBeamer
    64. SentrySentry
    65. Wind
    66. BeamerBeamer ×2
    67. Mex ×2
    68. BeamerBeamer

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Soliloqueur's (40 OS, 26/09/2026); 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 7:31 · in 59% 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

1527 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088800
3:002050179106
4:003161658496
5:00424314121026
6:00543322971789
7:00667031752710
8:00792040293619
9:00931747894495
10:001069754225316
11:001226558996054
12:001411464906830
13:001623070097536
14:001811476808373
15:002046683169249
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

Soliloqueur

40.4 OS · 26/09/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units
148 metal received · 17408 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=1520
Advanced Metal Extractor9:36Middle 50%: 8:41–10:48 · n=1126

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