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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 · 42 steps
    1. LazarusLazarus ×2
    2. TickTick
    3. CenturionCenturion
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. SentrySentry
    6. Mex
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. PawnPawn
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Mex
    11. PawnPawn
    12. SentrySentry
    13. CenturionCenturion
    14. Mex
    15. CenturionCenturion
    16. SentrySentry
    17. Mex
    18. SentrySentry
    19. Construction BotCon bot
    20. Wind ×2
    21. Construction BotCon bot
    22. Wind
    23. Construction BotCon bot
    24. Wind
    25. Con turret
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. Wind
    28. SentrySentry
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. Wind ×2
    31. RocketeerRocketeer
    32. Wind
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. BeamerBeamer
    35. Wind
    36. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    37. RocketeerRocketeer
    38. Wind
    39. RocketeerRocketeer
    40. SentrySentry
    41. RocketeerRocketeer
    42. GauntletGauntletdone 6:20
  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 · 102 steps
    1. Mex
    2. RocketeerRocketeer
    3. Wind ×2
    4. RocketeerRocketeer
    5. Wind
    6. RocketeerRocketeer
    7. Wind
    8. RocketeerRocketeer
    9. Wind
    10. RocketeerRocketeer
    11. SentrySentry
    12. Wind ×3
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. Energy storage
    15. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    16. BeamerBeamer
    17. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    18. FerretFerret
    19. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    20. Mex
    21. RocketeerRocketeer
    22. Con turret
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. TickTick ×2
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    26. BeamerBeamer
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    28. LazarusLazarus
    29. Con turret
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. LazarusLazarus
    32. Mex
    33. LazarusLazarus ×2
    34. PawnPawn ×2
    35. Wind
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:56
    37. PawnPawn
    38. Wind
    39. PawnPawn
    40. Wind
    41. PawnPawn
    42. Wind
    43. PawnPawn
    44. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    45. Wind
    46. PawnPawn
    47. Wind
    48. LazarusLazarus
    49. Wind
    50. Construction BotCon bot
    51. Wind
    52. Construction BotCon bot
    53. Wind
    54. Construction BotCon bot
    55. LazarusLazarus
    56. PawnPawn
    57. Wind
    58. TickTick ×3
    59. Wind
    60. TickTick ×2
    61. Wind
    62. TickTick ×10
    63. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    64. TickTick ×16
    65. RocketeerRocketeer
    66. TickTick ×14
    67. ScorpionScorpion
    68. TickTick ×3
    69. Wind
    70. TickTick
    71. Con turret
    72. TickTick
    73. Wind ×2
    74. TickTick
    75. Wind
    76. Con turret
    77. TickTick
    78. Wind
    79. TickTick
    80. Wind
    81. TickTick
    82. Wind ×2
    83. TickTick ×3
    84. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 13:41
    85. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    86. Advanced solar
    87. TickTick ×7
    88. BeamerBeamer
    89. TickTick ×12
    90. WelderWelder
    91. TickTick ×3
    92. WelderWelder
    93. TickTick
    94. WelderWelder
    95. TickTick
    96. UmbrellaAnti-nukenot finished by 15:00
    97. TickTick
    98. Con turret
    99. TickTick ×2
    100. Con turret
    101. TickTick ×9
    102. Con turret

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is C0np0c's (35 OS, 18/09/2026); 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

C0np0c

35.4 OS · 18/09/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
91 metal received · 55386 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

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