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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 · 41 steps
    1. LazarusLazarus
    2. Wind
    3. TickTick
    4. Wind
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. LazarusLazarus
    7. Wind ×2
    8. CenturionCenturion
    9. Con turret
    10. TickTick ×2
    11. RocketeerRocketeer
    12. Mex
    13. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    14. SentrySentry
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    17. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    18. SentrySentry
    19. RocketeerRocketeer ×7
    20. TickTick
    21. Construction BotCon bot
    22. RocketeerRocketeer
    23. Wind
    24. RocketeerRocketeer
    25. Con turret
    26. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    27. Wind
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. Wind
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. Wind
    32. RocketeerRocketeer
    33. TickTick
    34. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
    36. Wind
    37. RocketeerRocketeer
    38. Wind
    39. RocketeerRocketeer
    40. Wind
    41. 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 (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 · 126 steps
    1. Con turret
    2. LazarusLazarus ×2
    3. Wind
    4. Energy storage
    5. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    6. Wind
    7. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    8. Wind
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Wind
    11. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    12. Wind
    13. RocketeerRocketeer
    14. Wind
    15. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    16. Wind
    17. Energy storage
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. LazarusLazarus
    20. Wind
    21. LazarusLazarus ×2
    22. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    23. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 7:53
    24. Wind
    25. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:06 · typical 9:38
    26. Wind ×2
    27. CompassRadar bot
    28. Wind
    29. HoundHound
    30. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    31. Wind
    32. HoundHoundfor Pond
    33. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    34. Wind
    35. HoundHoundfor Pond
    36. Wind
    37. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    38. Wind
    39. HoundHound
    40. Wind ×2
    41. HoundHound
    42. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    43. Wind
    44. Con turret
    45. FatboyFatboyfor Ponddone 9:50
    46. SentrySentry
    47. Wind ×3
    48. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×2
    49. Wind
    50. SmugglerJammer bot
    51. Wind
    52. ButlerButler
    53. Wind ×2
    54. ButlerButler
    55. Wind ×2
    56. GhostGhost
    57. Wind ×2
    58. Con turret
    59. Advanced Construction BotT2 con bot
    60. Wind ×3
    61. RattlesnakeRattlesnakenot finished by 15:00
    62. Wind ×3
    63. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 11:27
    64. Wind
    65. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    66. Wind ×6
    67. RattlesnakeRattlesnake
    68. Wind
    69. ButlerButler
    70. Wind
    71. RattlesnakeRattlesnake
    72. ButlerButler
    73. Wind
    74. Converter ×3
    75. Wind
    76. Converter
    77. GhostGhost
    78. Converter
    79. Wind
    80. ButlerButler ×3
    81. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×2
    82. Wind
    83. WelderWelder
    84. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    85. WelderWelder
    86. Con turret
    87. WelderWelder
    88. PulsarPulsarnot finished by 15:00
    89. Con turret
    90. PulsarPulsar
    91. Fusion ReactorFusion
    92. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    93. WelderWelder
    94. Con turret
    95. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×3
    96. ButlerButler
    97. Con turret ×2
    98. BasilicaBasilicanot finished by 15:00
    99. Bot LabBot Labdone 14:07
    100. Con turret
    101. TickTick ×2for Pond
    102. Con turret
    103. TickTick ×6for Pond
    104. Con turret
    105. TickTick ×4for Pond
    106. Bot LabBot Labdone 14:29
    107. TickTickfor Pond
    108. Con turret
    109. TickTick ×5for Pond
    110. Con turret
    111. Construction BotCon bot
    112. TickTick ×2for Pond
    113. TickTick ×3
    114. Con turret
    115. TickTick ×3
    116. Con turret
    117. TickTick ×3
    118. Con turret
    119. Advanced Fusion ReactorAdvanced Fusion Reactornot finished by 15:00
    120. TickTick ×5
    121. Con turret
    122. TickTick ×6
    123. Con turret
    124. TickTick ×3
    125. Con turret ×2
    126. TickTick ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is TM_autopilot's (57 OS, 05/08/2026); 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 7:30 · 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

TM_autopilot

57.2 OS · 05/08/2026

Open source match ↗

15 received units · includes a constructor
2669 metal received · 35421 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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