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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 · 353 distinct matches · 76 players · 67% of Cortex Suicide front games · team won 51% of 366 · 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 353 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 · 4 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Wind
    3. Mex
    4. 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
    • Aggravator2 Aggravator
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 3 wind

    The example game in this phase · 17 steps
    1. GraverobberGraverobber
    2. ThugThug ×5
    3. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    4. Mex
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. ThugThug
    7. GuardGuard
    8. ThugThug ×2
    9. Mex
    10. ThugThug
    11. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    12. ThugThug
    13. GuardGuard
    14. GraverobberGraverobber
    15. ThugThug ×10
    16. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    17. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
  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 (47%) · Radar Tower (44%) · Twin Guard (31%) · converter (30%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 186 steps
    1. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. ThugThug
    4. Wind
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    7. Wind
    8. AggravatorAggravator
    9. GraverobberGraverobber
    10. Mex
    11. AggravatorAggravator
    12. Wind
    13. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    14. ThugThug
    15. AggravatorAggravator
    16. Wind
    17. ThugThug
    18. AggravatorAggravator
    19. Wind
    20. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    21. Wind
    22. AggravatorAggravator
    23. ThugThug
    24. AggravatorAggravator
    25. Wind
    26. AggravatorAggravator
    27. Wind
    28. AggravatorAggravator ×3
    29. ThugThug
    30. AggravatorAggravator
    31. Wind
    32. GraverobberGraverobber
    33. Construction BotCon bot
    34. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    35. Wind
    36. Construction BotCon bot
    37. ThugThug ×2
    38. GraverobberGraverobber
    39. Wind
    40. AggravatorAggravator ×3
    41. Wind
    42. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    43. Wind
    44. ThugThug
    45. AggravatorAggravator
    46. ThugThug
    47. GraverobberGraverobber
    48. ThugThug
    49. Wind
    50. ThugThug
    51. AggravatorAggravator
    52. ThugThug
    53. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    54. Wind
    55. AggravatorAggravator ×3
    56. Wind
    57. AggravatorAggravator
    58. GraverobberGraverobber
    59. Wind
    60. GraverobberGraverobber
    61. AggravatorAggravator ×3
    62. Wind
    63. AggravatorAggravator ×3
    64. Construction BotCon bot
    65. Wind
    66. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    67. GraverobberGraverobber
    68. Wind
    69. AggravatorAggravator
    70. GraverobberGraverobber
    71. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    72. Wind
    73. ThugThug
    74. AggravatorAggravator
    75. ThugThug ×4
    76. Wind
    77. AggravatorAggravator
    78. ThugThug ×3
    79. AggravatorAggravator
    80. ThugThug
    81. Wind
    82. ThugThug ×3
    83. PawnPawn
    84. AggravatorAggravator
    85. ThugThug
    86. Wind
    87. Con turret
    88. AggravatorAggravator
    89. ThugThug
    90. AggravatorAggravator
    91. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 11:53 · typical 9:42
    92. AggravatorAggravator
    93. ThugThug
    94. Wind
    95. ThugThug
    96. PawnPawn ×2
    97. ThugThug
    98. CastroCastro
    99. GruntGrunt
    100. Wind
    101. PawnPawn
    102. ThugThug
    103. AggravatorAggravator
    104. ThugThug ×2
    105. Con turret
    106. Metal storage
    107. Energy storage
    108. ThugThug
    109. AggravatorAggravator
    110. Mex
    111. RocketeerRocketeer
    112. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    113. GruntGrunt
    114. ThugThug
    115. RocketeerRocketeer
    116. ThugThug
    117. Wind
    118. ThugThug
    119. Wind
    120. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    121. ThugThug
    122. Wind
    123. ThugThug ×2
    124. StarlightStarlightdone 12:15
    125. Mex
    126. Wind ×2
    127. ThugThug
    128. GuardGuard
    129. Con turret
    130. Wind
    131. ThugThug
    132. Wind
    133. GuardGuard
    134. Wind
    135. ThugThug
    136. Wind
    137. RocketeerRocketeer
    138. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    139. GuardGuard
    140. Con turret
    141. Wind
    142. GruntGrunt
    143. ThugThug
    144. Wind
    145. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    146. ThugThug
    147. Wind
    148. ThugThug
    149. Wind
    150. ThugThug
    151. Wind
    152. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    153. Wind
    154. ThugThug
    155. Wind ×4
    156. ThugThug
    157. Wind ×5
    158. ThugThug
    159. Wind ×2
    160. ThugThug
    161. BlitzBlitz
    162. Wind ×2
    163. ThugThug
    164. BlitzBlitz
    165. ThugThug
    166. Wind ×2
    167. ThugThug
    168. Wind
    169. ThugThug
    170. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    171. Wind
    172. ThugThug
    173. Wind ×2
    174. ThugThug
    175. Con turret
    176. ThugThug
    177. Wind
    178. ThugThug
    179. Wind ×2
    180. ThugThug
    181. Wind
    182. ThugThug ×2
    183. Wind ×2
    184. Con turret
    185. ThugThug
    186. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Acqua's (35 OS, 27/08/2026); 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 7:32 · 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

366 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0027300
2:0095600
3:002058191130
4:003151663628
5:00432816971420
6:00553425652380
7:00676835643465
8:00797145054456
9:00923451865453
10:001045058116293
11:001194662887124
12:001361268158150
13:001530674618924
14:001705482219879
15:0018776887210532
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

Acqua

35.5 OS · 27/08/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
29 metal received · 11117 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=362
Advanced Metal Extractor9:42Middle 50%: 8:46–10:57 · n=238

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