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Suicide front / Armada / Factory first / OBSERVED BUILD

Standard suicide front

Bot Lab first into Rocketeer/Centurion/Pawn to contest the middle early and hold until T2 arrives, the role's baseline play.

Usually lab first (62%)

#rush · 1185 distinct matches · 125 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 60% of 1411 · 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 1185 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
    • Rocketeer18 Rocketeer
    • Tick2 Tick
    • Centurion1 Centurion
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: con turret (35%) · pawn (31%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 5 wind

    The example game in this phase · 44 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. Wind
    4. SentrySentry
    5. Tidal
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Tidal
    8. Mex
    9. Tidal
    10. Construction BotCon bot
    11. SentrySentry
    12. Mex
    13. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    14. LazarusLazarus ×2
    15. SentrySentry
    16. Mex
    17. SentrySentry
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. SentrySentry
    20. Mex
    21. CenturionCenturion
    22. Wind
    23. SentrySentry
    24. Mex
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. SentrySentry
    27. Wind
    28. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    29. SentrySentry
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. Wind
    32. TickTick
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. SentrySentry ×2
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
    36. Energy storage
    37. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    38. SentrySentry
    39. RocketeerRocketeer
    40. LazarusLazarus
    41. SentrySentry
    42. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    43. SentrySentry
    44. 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 (48%) · Radar Tower (47%) · energy storage (46%) · centurion (45%) · Beamer (38%)

    By 10:00 in all: 6 mex · 23 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 227 steps
    1. SentrySentry
    2. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    3. RocketeerRocketeer
    4. PawnPawn ×4
    5. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    6. PawnPawn
    7. Con turret
    8. PawnPawn ×4
    9. Mex
    10. Con turret
    11. PawnPawn
    12. AnemoneAnemone
    13. PawnPawn
    14. Wind ×2
    15. PawnPawn
    16. Wind
    17. PawnPawn
    18. Wind
    19. Converter
    20. PawnPawn
    21. Wind
    22. PawnPawn
    23. Wind ×3
    24. RocketeerRocketeer
    25. Wind
    26. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:21 · typical 9:37
    27. Construction BotCon bot
    28. LazarusLazarus
    29. Converter
    30. TickTick ×2
    31. Wind
    32. TickTick
    33. Wind
    34. TickTick
    35. Wind
    36. TickTick
    37. Wind ×2
    38. TickTick
    39. Converter
    40. TickTick ×2
    41. Wind
    42. TickTick
    43. Wind ×2
    44. TickTick
    45. Wind
    46. TickTick
    47. Wind
    48. TickTick
    49. Converter
    50. TickTick
    51. Wind
    52. TickTick
    53. Wind
    54. TickTick
    55. Wind
    56. TickTick
    57. Wind
    58. TickTick
    59. Wind
    60. TickTick
    61. Converter
    62. TickTick
    63. Wind
    64. TickTick
    65. Wind
    66. TickTick
    67. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    68. Wind
    69. TickTick
    70. Wind ×2
    71. TickTick
    72. Converter
    73. TickTick
    74. Wind
    75. TickTick
    76. Wind
    77. TickTick
    78. Wind
    79. SentrySentry
    80. TickTick
    81. Wind
    82. TickTick
    83. Wind
    84. TickTick
    85. Converter
    86. TickTick ×2
    87. Wind
    88. TickTick
    89. Con turret
    90. TickTick
    91. Wind
    92. TickTick
    93. Wind
    94. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    95. TickTick
    96. Wind
    97. TickTick
    98. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    99. Wind
    100. TickTick
    101. Converter
    102. SentrySentry
    103. TickTick
    104. Wind
    105. TickTick
    106. Wind
    107. TickTick
    108. Wind ×2
    109. TickTick
    110. SentrySentry
    111. Wind
    112. TickTick
    113. Converter
    114. TickTick
    115. Wind
    116. TickTick
    117. Wind
    118. TickTick
    119. Wind ×2
    120. TickTick
    121. Wind
    122. TickTick
    123. Converter
    124. TickTick
    125. Wind
    126. TickTick
    127. Con turret
    128. Wind
    129. TickTick
    130. Wind
    131. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    132. Wind
    133. TickTick
    134. Wind
    135. TickTick
    136. Converter
    137. TickTick
    138. Wind
    139. Con turret
    140. TickTick
    141. Wind ×2
    142. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 12:27
    143. TickTick
    144. Wind ×2
    145. LazarusLazarus
    146. Converter
    147. Wind ×3
    148. LazarusLazarus
    149. Wind ×2
    150. Converter
    151. Wind ×2
    152. LazarusLazarus
    153. Wind ×2
    154. Converter
    155. Wind ×2
    156. Converter
    157. LazarusLazarus
    158. Wind
    159. Con turret
    160. Wind ×3
    161. Con turret
    162. Wind
    163. LazarusLazarus
    164. Wind ×3
    165. Converter
    166. Con turret
    167. LazarusLazarus
    168. Converter
    169. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    170. LazarusLazarus
    171. Con turret
    172. Converter
    173. LazarusLazarus ×2
    174. Wind
    175. Converter
    176. LazarusLazarus
    177. Wind ×2
    178. TickTick
    179. Wind
    180. TickTick
    181. Converter
    182. TickTick
    183. Converter
    184. TickTick ×2
    185. Wind
    186. TickTick
    187. Converter
    188. Wind
    189. TickTick
    190. Wind
    191. TickTick
    192. Wind
    193. Experimental GantryExperimental Gantrydone 14:32
    194. TickTick
    195. Wind
    196. Converter
    197. Wind
    198. Converter
    199. TickTick
    200. Wind ×3
    201. TickTick
    202. Wind
    203. Converter
    204. TickTick
    205. Wind ×5
    206. Converter ×2
    207. TickTick
    208. Wind ×5
    209. Pit BullPit Bull
    210. Converter
    211. TickTick
    212. Wind
    213. Converter
    214. Wind ×3
    215. RazorbackRazorbacknot finished by 15:00
    216. TickTick
    217. Wind
    218. Converter
    219. TickTick
    220. Wind
    221. TickTick
    222. Wind
    223. Converter
    224. Wind
    225. TickTick
    226. Wind ×2
    227. Converter

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Xad's (46 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

1411 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088900
3:002056172106
4:003161660486
5:00423614131020
6:00543023271785
7:00666131792732
8:00791040353631
9:00929848164516
10:001068854265336
11:001224158986080
12:001402465176842
13:001604270137523
14:001796976808336
15:002029783029228
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

Xad

46.3 OS · 25/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
530 metal received · 63249 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=1405
Advanced Metal Extractor9:37Middle 50%: 8:41–10:48 · n=1035

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