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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is PlatinumBlonde's (60 OS, 23/09/2026); 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

PlatinumBlonde

59.6 OS · 23/09/2026

Open source match ↗

18 received units · includes a constructor
5527 metal received · 21985 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

Played most by

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