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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 · 1244 distinct matches · 126 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 60% of 1476 · 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 1244 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
    • Rocketeer18 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 · 45 steps
    1. Wind
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. Wind
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. SentrySentry
    6. LazarusLazarus
    7. Mex ×2
    8. CenturionCenturion
    9. SentrySentry
    10. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    11. Mex
    12. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    13. SentrySentry
    14. RocketeerRocketeer
    15. Wind
    16. Mex
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. SentrySentry
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. SentrySentry
    21. Wind
    22. Construction BotCon bot
    23. Wind
    24. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    25. Wind
    26. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    27. Wind
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    32. Wind
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×5
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
    36. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    37. Wind
    38. RocketeerRocketeer
    39. Construction BotCon bot
    40. OverwatchOverwatch
    41. Wind
    42. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    43. Wind
    44. RocketeerRocketeer
    45. Construction BotCon bot
  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 (48%) · Radar Tower (47%) · 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 · 106 steps
    1. CenturionCenturion
    2. Wind
    3. CenturionCenturion
    4. Wind
    5. CenturionCenturion
    6. OverwatchOverwatch
    7. CenturionCenturion
    8. Wind
    9. LazarusLazarus
    10. Con turret ×2
    11. LazarusLazarus ×2
    12. Energy storage
    13. Wind ×2
    14. GauntletGauntletdone 8:19
    15. Wind ×6
    16. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    17. Wind ×5
    18. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    19. Wind
    20. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    21. Wind
    22. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×5
    23. Wind
    24. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    25. Wind
    26. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    27. Wind ×3
    28. Con turret
    29. Wind
    30. Construction BotCon bot
    31. Wind
    32. Con turret
    33. Construction BotCon bot
    34. Wind
    35. Construction BotCon bot
    36. Wind
    37. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    38. Construction BotCon bot
    39. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    40. Wind ×3
    41. GauntletGauntlet
    42. Wind
    43. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 11:48
    44. Wind ×9
    45. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    46. TickTick
    47. Wind ×2
    48. TickTick ×2
    49. Wind ×2
    50. TickTick
    51. Wind
    52. TickTick
    53. Wind
    54. TickTick ×2
    55. Wind
    56. TickTick
    57. Wind
    58. Converter
    59. TickTick
    60. Wind
    61. TickTick
    62. Converter
    63. Wind ×2
    64. TickTick
    65. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    66. Wind
    67. TickTick ×2
    68. Wind ×3
    69. TickTick
    70. Converter
    71. TickTick
    72. Wind ×3
    73. TickTick ×2
    74. Converter
    75. Wind ×2
    76. TickTick
    77. Wind
    78. TickTick
    79. PersecutorPersecutordone 14:24
    80. TickTick
    81. Wind ×2
    82. TickTick
    83. Wind
    84. Converter
    85. TickTick
    86. Wind ×2
    87. Converter
    88. Wind ×2
    89. Converter
    90. Wind ×2
    91. Construction BotCon bot
    92. Wind
    93. Construction BotCon bot
    94. Wind
    95. Converter
    96. Wind
    97. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    98. Wind ×2
    99. Construction BotCon bot
    100. Converter
    101. Wind
    102. Construction BotCon bot
    103. Con turret
    104. Wind ×2
    105. Construction BotCon bot
    106. Converter

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is derkarl's (39 OS, 25/09/2026); 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 58% 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

1476 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088800
3:002052173106
4:003161658487
5:00424314151020
6:00543323271786
7:00666831762727
8:00791340353627
9:00930148084496
10:001068454295313
11:001224658946034
12:001409665046820
13:001621470167535
14:001807476888398
15:002043282939278
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

derkarl

38.9 OS · 25/09/2026

Open source match ↗

8 received units · includes a constructor
256 metal received · 3551 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=1470
Advanced Metal Extractor9:38Middle 50%: 8:42–10:48 · n=1084

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