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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 · 1291 distinct matches · 127 players · 71% of Armada Suicide front games · team won 59% of 1529 · 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 1291 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
    • Rocketeer17 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 · 20 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. SentrySentry
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Mex
    5. LazarusLazarus
    6. Mex
    7. RocketeerRocketeer
    8. Mex
    9. CenturionCenturion
    10. Mex
    11. BeamerBeamer
    12. CenturionCenturion
    13. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    14. Construction BotCon bot
    15. RocketeerRocketeer ×6
    16. Wind
    17. Construction BotCon bot
    18. Wind
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. LazarusLazarus
  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%) · energy storage (46%) · Radar Tower (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 · 127 steps
    1. LazarusLazarus
    2. Wind
    3. LazarusLazarus ×2
    4. Wind
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Wind
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. CenturionCenturion
    9. Wind
    10. CenturionCenturion
    11. Wind
    12. CenturionCenturion
    13. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:14 · typical 9:36
    14. Wind ×3
    15. Con turret
    16. Wind
    17. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    18. Wind ×2
    19. RoverScout
    20. TickTick
    21. CenturionCenturion
    22. TickTick
    23. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    24. Wind
    25. TickTick
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. TickTick
    28. Wind
    29. TickTick ×2
    30. Wind
    31. TickTick
    32. Wind ×2
    33. TickTick ×3
    34. Wind
    35. TickTick ×2
    36. Wind
    37. TickTick ×2
    38. Wind
    39. TickTick
    40. Wind
    41. TickTick ×2
    42. Wind
    43. TickTick ×3
    44. Wind ×2
    45. TickTick
    46. Wind
    47. TickTick ×2
    48. Wind
    49. TickTick ×3
    50. Wind
    51. TickTick
    52. Wind
    53. TickTick
    54. Wind
    55. TickTick
    56. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    57. TickTick
    58. Wind
    59. TickTick ×3
    60. Wind
    61. TickTick
    62. Wind ×2
    63. TickTick ×2
    64. Wind
    65. TickTick ×2
    66. Con turret
    67. TickTick
    68. Wind ×2
    69. TickTick ×2
    70. Con turret
    71. Wind
    72. TickTick
    73. Con turret
    74. TickTick
    75. Wind ×2
    76. TickTick ×6
    77. Wind
    78. TickTick ×3
    79. Wind
    80. TickTick ×3
    81. Wind
    82. TickTick ×7
    83. Wind
    84. TickTick
    85. Bot LabBot Labdone 12:59
    86. TickTick
    87. Wind
    88. TickTick ×2
    89. Con turret
    90. Wind
    91. Bot LabBot Labdone 13:16
    92. TickTick
    93. Wind ×2
    94. TickTick ×2
    95. Con turret
    96. TickTick
    97. Con turret
    98. Energy storage
    99. TickTick ×2
    100. Energy storage
    101. Con turret
    102. TickTick
    103. Wind
    104. Con turret
    105. TickTick
    106. GruntGrunt ×2
    107. TickTick
    108. GruntGrunt
    109. Energy storage
    110. GruntGrunt ×3
    111. TickTick
    112. GruntGrunt ×2
    113. JunoJuno
    114. GruntGrunt
    115. BeamerBeamer
    116. GruntGrunt ×2
    117. TickTick
    118. Wind
    119. GruntGrunt ×5
    120. TickTick
    121. GruntGrunt ×5
    122. BeamerBeamer
    123. GruntGrunt
    124. Wind
    125. GruntGrunt ×16
    126. Wind
    127. GruntGrunt ×20

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Espera's (39 OS, 28/09/2026); 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

1529 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0022600
2:0088800
3:002051180106
4:003161658496
5:00424314131026
6:00543322981789
7:00667031752710
8:00792040313619
9:00931747964495
10:001069954265316
11:001226559036054
12:001411365126830
13:001622270137536
14:001810976968373
15:002046683299249
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

Espera

39.0 OS · 28/09/2026

Open source match ↗

12 received units · includes a constructor
61 metal received · 36102 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=1522
Advanced Metal Extractor9:36Middle 50%: 8:41–10:48 · n=1128

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