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Suicide front / Armada / Factory first / OBSERVED BUILD

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 · 30 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    2. Mex
    3. SentrySentry
    4. TickTick
    5. LazarusLazarus
    6. Mex
    7. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    8. Mex
    9. RocketeerRocketeer
    10. Wind
    11. SentrySentry
    12. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    13. Wind
    14. SentrySentry
    15. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    16. Mex
    17. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. SentrySentry
    20. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    21. Construction BotCon bot
    22. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    23. LazarusLazarus
    24. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    26. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    28. LazarusLazarus
    29. Construction BotCon bot
    30. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
  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 · 64 steps
    1. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    2. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    3. LazarusLazarus
    4. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    5. Mex
    6. LazarusLazarus
    7. RocketeerRocketeer
    8. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    9. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    10. Construction BotCon bot
    11. CenturionCenturion ×4
    12. Mex
    13. CenturionCenturion ×3
    14. Mex
    15. CenturionCenturion ×2
    16. Con turret ×2
    17. Wind
    18. CenturionCenturion
    19. Wind ×4
    20. LazarusLazarus
    21. Wind
    22. CenturionCenturion
    23. Mex
    24. Wind
    25. CenturionCenturion
    26. Wind ×2
    27. CenturionCenturion
    28. Wind
    29. CenturionCenturion
    30. Wind ×2
    31. CenturionCenturion
    32. Wind ×2
    33. CenturionCenturion
    34. Mex
    35. Wind ×2
    36. CenturionCenturion
    37. Wind
    38. Mex
    39. Wind
    40. CenturionCenturion
    41. Wind
    42. CenturionCenturion
    43. Wind ×3
    44. CenturionCenturion
    45. Wind
    46. CenturionCenturion
    47. Wind ×2
    48. CenturionCenturion
    49. Wind
    50. CenturionCenturion
    51. Wind
    52. CenturionCenturion
    53. Wind
    54. CenturionCenturion ×4
    55. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexnot finished by 15:00 · typical 9:36
    56. CenturionCenturion
    57. Wind
    58. CenturionCenturion
    59. Wind
    60. CenturionCenturion
    61. Wind
    62. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    63. Wind ×2
    64. CenturionCenturion

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is RTX177013's (35 OS, 29/08/2026); 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

RTX177013

35.3 OS · 29/08/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units
1627 metal received · 7725 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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