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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 · 39 steps
    1. TickTick
    2. LazarusLazarus
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. SentrySentry
    5. Construction BotCon botfor Pond
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Mex ×2
    8. CenturionCenturion
    9. Mex
    10. LazarusLazarus
    11. SentrySentry
    12. RocketeerRocketeer
    13. Construction BotCon bot
    14. LazarusLazarus
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Wind
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. Wind
    19. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    20. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    21. SentrySentry
    22. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    23. CenturionCenturion
    24. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    25. Construction BotCon bot
    26. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    27. Construction BotCon bot
    28. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    29. SentrySentry
    30. PawnPawn ×2
    31. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    32. PawnPawn
    33. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    34. Mex
    35. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    36. SentrySentry
    37. CenturionCenturion
    38. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    39. Energy storage
  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 · 178 steps
    1. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    2. Con turret
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    5. RocketeerRocketeer
    6. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    7. CenturionCenturion
    8. RocketeerRocketeer
    9. Wind
    10. Construction BotCon bot
    11. Wind
    12. SentrySentry
    13. Wind
    14. Construction BotCon bot
    15. Wind
    16. RocketeerRocketeer
    17. Wind
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    20. Wind
    21. Con turret
    22. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    23. RocketeerRocketeer
    24. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    25. Wind
    26. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    27. RocketeerRocketeer
    28. Wind ×2
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. Wind
    31. RocketeerRocketeer
    32. Wind ×2
    33. CenturionCenturion
    34. OverwatchOverwatch
    35. Wind ×2
    36. RocketeerRocketeer
    37. Wind ×2
    38. RocketeerRocketeer
    39. Wind ×2
    40. RocketeerRocketeer
    41. Wind
    42. BeamerBeamer
    43. RocketeerRocketeer
    44. Wind ×2
    45. RocketeerRocketeer
    46. Wind ×2
    47. Energy storage
    48. RocketeerRocketeer
    49. Construction BotCon bot
    50. Converter
    51. Wind
    52. CenturionCenturion
    53. Wind
    54. Mex
    55. Wind
    56. Converter
    57. CenturionCenturion
    58. Wind
    59. Con turret
    60. Wind ×2
    61. Converter
    62. RocketeerRocketeer
    63. Wind
    64. Converter
    65. Wind
    66. CenturionCenturion
    67. Wind
    68. Mex
    69. Converter
    70. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    71. Converter
    72. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    73. RocketeerRocketeer
    74. Converter
    75. RocketeerRocketeer
    76. Converter ×2
    77. SentrySentry
    78. RocketeerRocketeer
    79. Converter
    80. RocketeerRocketeer
    81. Converter ×2
    82. PawnPawn
    83. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    84. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 11:01 · typical 9:36
    85. RocketeerRocketeer
    86. Wind ×2
    87. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    88. CenturionCenturion
    89. TickTick
    90. Wind ×2
    91. TickTick ×2
    92. Wind ×2
    93. TickTick ×3
    94. Wind ×2
    95. TickTick
    96. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    97. TickTick ×2
    98. Wind
    99. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    100. Wind
    101. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    102. TickTick
    103. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    104. TickTick
    105. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    106. Wind ×2
    107. TickTick
    108. Pit BullPit Bull
    109. TickTick ×2
    110. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    111. Wind
    112. TickTick
    113. Wind
    114. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    115. TickTick
    116. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    117. TickTick
    118. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    119. Wind ×2
    120. TickTick
    121. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    122. TickTick ×2
    123. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    124. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    125. TickTick
    126. Wind
    127. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    128. TickTick
    129. Wind
    130. TickTick
    131. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    132. TickTick
    133. Wind ×2
    134. TickTick ×3
    135. Wind ×2
    136. TickTick ×4
    137. Wind ×2
    138. TickTick ×2
    139. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 13:32
    140. TickTick ×2
    141. Wind
    142. TickTick
    143. Wind
    144. TickTick ×4
    145. Wind ×2
    146. TickTick ×5
    147. Wind
    148. TickTick ×2
    149. Wind
    150. TickTick ×2
    151. Wind ×2
    152. TickTick ×2
    153. Wind
    154. TickTick
    155. Wind
    156. TickTick ×2
    157. Pit BullPit Bull
    158. Wind
    159. TickTick
    160. Wind
    161. TickTick
    162. Con turret
    163. TickTick
    164. Wind
    165. TickTick
    166. Wind
    167. TickTick ×2
    168. Wind
    169. Con turret
    170. Wind
    171. TickTick ×3
    172. Wind
    173. RattlesnakeRattlesnake
    174. TickTick
    175. Wind
    176. TickTick ×2
    177. Wind
    178. TickTick

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is HotDawg's (45 OS, 27/09/2026); 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

HotDawg

44.6 OS · 27/09/2026

Open source match ↗

8 received units · includes a constructor
116 metal received · 54346 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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