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Standard suicide front

The role's baseline bot lab opening: secure mexes, push out Thugs, Aggravators and Grunts to contest the middle and hold until T2 arrives.

#rush · 369 distinct matches · 77 players · 67% of Cortex Suicide front games · team won 51% of 382 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Bot Lab by 0:34

  1. Take 3 mex, then rush a Bot Lab immediately for early army.
  2. Finish Bot Lab, start pumping Thug, Grunt and Aggravator.
  3. Push units to middle to contest and secure reclaim early.
  4. Add Advanced Metal Extractor to keep economy scaling with the fight.
  5. Hold middle with bots until T2 reinforcements arrive from Geo.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 369 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

    Up to the Bot Lab

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 1 mexdone ~0:34, middle half 0:26–0:44

    By 0:17 in all: 1 mex

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind
    3. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:51 · typical 0:34
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    Builders
    • Graverobber4 Graverobber
    • Construction Bot3 Con bot
    Army
    • Guard3 Guard
    • Thug14 Thug
    • Grunt3 Grunt
    • Aggravator1 Aggravator
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 3 wind

    The example game in this phase · 29 steps
    1. GruntGrunt
    2. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    3. GruntGrunt
    4. GraverobberGraverobber
    5. Wind
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. GraverobberGraverobber
    8. ThugThug ×2
    9. Mex
    10. ThugThug ×7
    11. Mex
    12. ThugThug
    13. GraverobberGraverobber
    14. ThugThug ×2
    15. GuardGuard
    16. GraverobberGraverobber
    17. TrasherTrasher
    18. Construction BotCon bot
    19. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    20. ThugThug ×3
    21. SentrySentry
    22. ThugThug
    23. Wind
    24. JanusJanus
    25. ThugThug
    26. GraverobberGraverobber
    27. Wind
    28. GruntGrunt
    29. SentrySentry
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine14Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Graverobber2 Graverobber
    • Construction Bot1 Con bot
    Army
    • Guard1 Guard
    • Thug6 Thug
    • Grunt3 Grunt

    Some games also: aggravator (50%) · energy storage (48%) · Radar Tower (43%) · Twin Guard (32%) · converter (30%)

    By 10:00 in all: 6 mex · 18 wind · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 81 steps
    1. GruntGrunt ×2
    2. Wind
    3. GruntGrunt
    4. Wind
    5. GruntGrunt ×3
    6. Wind
    7. TrasherTrasher
    8. Wind
    9. GruntGrunt ×2
    10. Wind
    11. GruntGrunt ×2
    12. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    13. Con turret
    14. GraverobberGraverobber
    15. Wind
    16. GraverobberGraverobber
    17. Wind
    18. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    19. GraverobberGraverobber
    20. Wind
    21. Mex
    22. GraverobberGraverobber
    23. ThugThug
    24. Energy storage
    25. ThugThug
    26. GuardGuard
    27. Mex
    28. ThugThug ×2
    29. Wind
    30. ThugThug
    31. GuardGuard
    32. Wind
    33. GraverobberGraverobber
    34. Wind
    35. GraverobberGraverobber
    36. Wind
    37. GruntGrunt
    38. Wind
    39. GruntGrunt
    40. Wind
    41. GruntGrunt
    42. Wind
    43. GruntGrunt
    44. Wind
    45. GruntGrunt ×11
    46. GraverobberGraverobber
    47. Con turret
    48. GraverobberGraverobber
    49. Con turret
    50. GraverobberGraverobber
    51. SentrySentry
    52. Advanced solar
    53. GraverobberGraverobber
    54. Construction BotCon bot
    55. Advanced solar
    56. Construction BotCon bot
    57. Converter
    58. Mex
    59. Construction BotCon bot
    60. Converter ×4
    61. Mex
    62. Converter ×2
    63. Con turret
    64. Converter
    65. Mex
    66. Converter
    67. AgitatorAgitatordone 13:40
    68. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    69. GruntGrunt ×7
    70. Con turret
    71. GruntGrunt ×11
    72. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    73. GruntGrunt
    74. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    75. GruntGrunt
    76. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    77. GruntGrunt ×5
    78. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 14:34 · typical 9:40
    79. GruntGrunt ×3
    80. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    81. GruntGrunt ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is _Hawkey_'s (60 OS, 26/09/2026); 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 7:31 · in 57% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build, running totals by minute

Metal produced

010k20k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Enemy metal destroyed

05k10k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

05k10k15k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

382 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0027500
2:0096400
3:002059193133
4:003151673635
5:00432816931420
6:00553225612403
7:00677035643490
8:00795044984460
9:00923452115483
10:001046558576310
11:001198963667149
12:001361268318150
13:001518475068924
14:001695583189835
15:0018357890410495
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

This is the role's baseline aggressive job, winning half its games while both dealing and taking heavy metal losses fighting at middle.

  • + Fastest Bot Lab of any role (0:34), gets units fighting almost immediately.
  • + Destroys 8805 enemy metal by 15:00 through constant middle pressure.
  • − Loses 10461 own metal by 15:00, more than it destroys.
  • − Metal production lags behind other front role at 18297 by 15:00.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

_Hawkey_

60.3 OS · 26/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
591 metal received · 31979 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:34Middle 50%: 0:26–0:44 · n=378
Advanced Metal Extractor9:40Middle 50%: 8:45–10:57 · n=246

Played most by

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