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Standard suicide front

Armada Suicide front build order · Supreme Isthmus

The role's standard play: bot lab first, Rocketeer/Centurion/Pawn based force pushes into the middle to contest and hold it until T2 arrives.

Usually lab first (63%)

#rush #push · 1309 distinct matches · 127 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 1550 · 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 1309 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
    • Rocketeer17 Rocketeer
    • Tick2 Tick
    • Centurion1 Centurion
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: con turret (35%) · pawn (33%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 23 steps
    1. CenturionCenturion
    2. Mex
    3. Wind ×3
    4. Mex
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Mex
    7. SentrySentry
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. LazarusLazarus ×2
    10. Construction BotCon bot
    11. RocketeerRocketeer ×6
    12. Mex
    13. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    14. Mex
    15. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    16. LazarusLazarus
    17. Mex
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    20. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    21. CenturionCenturion
    22. Mex
    23. Construction BotCon bot ×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 (47%) · Radar Tower (46%) · 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 · 120 steps
    1. LazarusLazarus
    2. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. CenturionCenturion
    5. PawnPawn ×2
    6. SentrySentry
    7. PawnPawn ×6
    8. Con turret
    9. Wind
    10. PawnPawn
    11. Wind
    12. Con turret
    13. PawnPawn
    14. Wind
    15. PawnPawn
    16. Wind
    17. PawnPawn
    18. Wind
    19. Bot LabBot Labdone 6:33
    20. PawnPawn
    21. Wind ×2
    22. PawnPawn
    23. LazarusLazarus
    24. PawnPawn
    25. Wind
    26. PawnPawn ×2
    27. Wind
    28. PawnPawn ×2
    29. Wind
    30. PawnPawn ×3
    31. Wind
    32. PawnPawn ×2
    33. Wind
    34. PawnPawn
    35. Wind
    36. PawnPawn ×2
    37. Wind
    38. PawnPawn ×2
    39. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    40. Wind
    41. PawnPawn ×2
    42. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:27
    43. Wind
    44. PawnPawn
    45. Wind
    46. PawnPawn ×3
    47. Con turret
    48. PawnPawn
    49. Wind
    50. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    51. Wind
    52. PawnPawn
    53. Wind
    54. Con turret
    55. Wind
    56. PawnPawn
    57. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    58. Wind
    59. PawnPawn ×3
    60. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    61. Wind
    62. PawnPawn
    63. Mex
    64. Wind
    65. PawnPawn
    66. Wind
    67. PawnPawn ×2
    68. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    69. PawnPawn ×5
    70. Wind
    71. PawnPawn ×20
    72. BeamerBeamer
    73. PawnPawn
    74. SentrySentry
    75. PawnPawn ×2
    76. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    77. PawnPawn ×15
    78. ScorpionScorpion
    79. PawnPawn ×5
    80. Wind ×2
    81. PawnPawn
    82. Wind
    83. PawnPawn
    84. Wind
    85. PawnPawn
    86. Wind ×3
    87. TickTick ×2
    88. PawnPawn ×2
    89. Wind
    90. PawnPawn ×2
    91. Wind
    92. PawnPawn ×2
    93. ScorpionScorpion
    94. Wind
    95. PawnPawn ×2
    96. Wind
    97. PawnPawn ×2
    98. Wind
    99. PawnPawn ×3
    100. Wind
    101. PawnPawn ×7
    102. Wind
    103. PawnPawn ×3
    104. LazarusLazarus ×2
    105. Wind
    106. LazarusLazarus ×2
    107. ScorpionScorpion
    108. PawnPawn ×3
    109. Wind
    110. PawnPawn ×2
    111. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    112. PawnPawn ×2
    113. Wind
    114. PawnPawn ×9
    115. Wind
    116. PawnPawn ×3
    117. Wind
    118. PawnPawn ×8
    119. Wind
    120. PawnPawn ×3

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is PixelPeeker's (43 OS, 05/09/2026); 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 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

1550 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088900
3:002051180106
4:003161660496
5:00424314171026
6:00543423001787
7:00667231752706
8:00792440303613
9:00931647974495
10:001069854325318
11:001225359116059
12:001410665186829
13:001622670297536
14:001809577098373
15:002043283489240
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

PixelPeeker

42.6 OS · 05/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
271 metal received · 22378 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=1543
Advanced Metal Extractor9:36Middle 50%: 8:42–10:48 · n=1143

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