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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 · 1 step
    1. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:20 · 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 · 35 steps
    1. Mex
    2. GruntGruntfor Pond
    3. Mex
    4. GruntGruntfor Pond
    5. Wind ×2
    6. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    7. Mex
    8. ThugThug ×2
    9. Mex
    10. ThugThug
    11. GraverobberGraverobber
    12. Construction BotCon bot
    13. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    14. GuardGuard
    15. AggravatorAggravator ×4
    16. Mex
    17. AggravatorAggravator ×3
    18. GruntGrunt ×2
    19. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    20. GruntGrunt
    21. AggravatorAggravator
    22. Mex
    23. AggravatorAggravator
    24. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    25. AggravatorAggravator ×3
    26. Wind
    27. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    28. AggravatorAggravator
    29. Wind ×2
    30. AggravatorAggravator
    31. Wind
    32. AggravatorAggravator
    33. Con turret
    34. AggravatorAggravator
    35. Wind
  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 · 135 steps
    1. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    2. Wind
    3. AggravatorAggravator
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. GuardGuard
    6. Wind
    7. GuardGuard
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. Wind
    10. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    11. GruntGrunt ×4
    12. Wind
    13. GruntGrunt ×2
    14. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    15. GruntGrunt ×4
    16. Wind
    17. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    18. GruntGrunt
    19. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    20. GruntGrunt ×3
    21. Wind
    22. GruntGrunt ×4
    23. Con turret
    24. GruntGrunt
    25. Wind
    26. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    27. GruntGrunt ×2
    28. Con turret
    29. Energy storage
    30. GruntGrunt ×4
    31. Energy storage
    32. GruntGrunt
    33. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:55 · typical 9:42
    34. Wind
    35. GruntGrunt
    36. Wind
    37. GruntGrunt
    38. Wind ×3
    39. GruntGrunt ×2
    40. Wind
    41. GruntGrunt
    42. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    43. GruntGrunt
    44. Wind
    45. GuardGuard
    46. GruntGrunt
    47. Wind
    48. GruntGrunt
    49. Wind
    50. GruntGrunt
    51. Wind
    52. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    53. GruntGrunt
    54. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    55. Wind
    56. GruntGrunt
    57. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    58. Mex
    59. GruntGrunt
    60. Wind
    61. GruntGrunt
    62. Wind
    63. GruntGrunt
    64. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    65. Wind
    66. GruntGrunt
    67. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 11:07
    68. GruntGrunt
    69. Wind ×2
    70. GruntGrunt
    71. Wind
    72. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    73. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    74. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    75. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    76. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    77. Wind
    78. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    79. GruntGrunt
    80. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    81. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    82. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    83. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    84. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    85. GruntGrunt
    86. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    87. Wind
    88. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    89. VeilVeil
    90. GruntGrunt
    91. Wind
    92. GruntGrunt
    93. Wind
    94. GruntGrunt
    95. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 12:31
    96. GruntGrunt
    97. Wind
    98. GruntGrunt
    99. Wind
    100. GruntGrunt
    101. Wind
    102. DeceiverJammer bot
    103. GruntGrunt
    104. Wind
    105. ArbiterArbiterdone 12:49
    106. GruntGrunt
    107. ArbiterArbiter
    108. Wind
    109. Converter
    110. GruntGrunt
    111. Wind
    112. ArbiterArbiter
    113. Converter
    114. GruntGrunt
    115. Wind
    116. Converter ×2
    117. GruntGrunt
    118. ArbiterArbiter
    119. Wind
    120. Converter
    121. Wind
    122. SlingshotSlingshot
    123. Wind
    124. ArbiterArbiter
    125. UrchinUrchin
    126. Wind
    127. Converter
    128. FiendFiend
    129. SumoSumodone 14:46
    130. Wind
    131. Advanced solar
    132. GruntGrunt
    133. Wind ×3
    134. SumoSumo
    135. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is PlatinumBlonde's (58 OS, 21/09/2026); 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 7:32 · 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

PlatinumBlonde

58.0 OS · 21/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
520 metal received · 37523 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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