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Standard suicide front

Armada Suicide front build order · Supreme Isthmus

The role's standard play: bot lab first, Rocketeer/Centurion/Pawn based force pushes into the middle to contest and hold it until T2 arrives.

Usually lab first (63%)

#rush #push · 1309 distinct matches · 127 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 1550 · 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 1309 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
    • Rocketeer17 Rocketeer
    • Tick2 Tick
    • Centurion1 Centurion
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: con turret (35%) · pawn (33%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 30 steps
    1. Mexfor Tech
    2. LazarusLazarus
    3. Windfor Tech
    4. Construction BotCon botfor Tech
    5. TickTick
    6. PawnPawn ×2
    7. Mexfor Tech
    8. PawnPawn
    9. Construction BotCon bot ×2for Tech
    10. Mex
    11. CenturionCenturion
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. Mex
    14. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    15. SentrySentry
    16. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    17. Mex
    18. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    19. LazarusLazarus
    20. TickTick
    21. LazarusLazarus ×2
    22. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    23. Mex
    24. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    25. LazarusLazarus
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. SentrySentry
    28. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    29. TickTick
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
  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%) · Radar Tower (46%) · energy storage (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 · 73 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer
    2. Windfor Tech
    3. Construction BotCon botfor Tech
    4. RocketeerRocketeer
    5. SentrySentry
    6. Windfor Tech
    7. TickTick
    8. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    9. SentrySentry
    10. RocketeerRocketeer
    11. Windfor Tech
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. TickTick
    14. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. SentrySentry
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. Energy storagefor Tech
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. Mex
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×6
    22. SentrySentry
    23. TickTick
    24. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    25. SentrySentry
    26. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    27. SentrySentry
    28. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    29. BeamerBeamer
    30. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    31. TickTick
    32. BeamerBeamer
    33. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    34. TickTick
    35. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Techdone 11:32 · typical 9:36
    36. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    37. Construction BotCon botfor Tech
    38. Construction BotCon bot
    39. LazarusLazarus
    40. PawnPawn
    41. CenturionCenturion
    42. PawnPawn
    43. Con turretfor Tech
    44. TickTick
    45. PawnPawn
    46. TickTick
    47. PawnPawn
    48. TickTick
    49. Con turretfor Tech
    50. PawnPawn
    51. TickTick
    52. PawnPawn
    53. Wind ×2for Tech
    54. TickTick
    55. PawnPawnfor Tech
    56. Wind ×2for Tech
    57. TickTickfor Tech
    58. Converterfor Tech
    59. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    60. PawnPawn
    61. Wind ×4for Tech
    62. TickTick
    63. Windfor Tech
    64. PawnPawn
    65. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Tech
    66. Converterfor Tech
    67. Wind ×3for Tech
    68. RattlesnakeRattlesnakefor Techdone 13:41
    69. Wind ×2for Tech
    70. Converterfor Tech
    71. Wind ×5for Tech
    72. Converterfor Tech
    73. Windfor Tech

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Xad's (43 OS, 30/09/2026); 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 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

1550 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088900
3:002051180106
4:003161660496
5:00424314171026
6:00543423001787
7:00667231752706
8:00792440303613
9:00931647974495
10:001069854325318
11:001225359116059
12:001410665186829
13:001622670297536
14:001809577098373
15:002043283489240
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

43.4 OS · 30/09/2026

Open source match ↗

15 received units · includes a constructor
23 metal received · 19774 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=1543
Advanced Metal Extractor9:36Middle 50%: 8:42–10:48 · n=1143

Played most by

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