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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. Mex ×2
  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 · 31 steps
    1. GuardGuard
    2. Mex
    3. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 0:59
    4. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    5. Wind
    6. PounderPounder
    7. Wind
    8. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    9. Mex
    10. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    11. Con turret
    12. PounderPounder
    13. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    14. GuardGuard ×2
    15. LasherLasher
    16. Wind
    17. LasherLasher
    18. Wind ×2
    19. Mex
    20. LasherLasher
    21. Wind ×3
    22. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    23. LasherLasher
    24. Wind ×3
    25. LasherLasher
    26. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    27. Wind
    28. Mex
    29. Con turret
    30. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    31. LasherLasher
  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 · 86 steps
    1. Energy storage
    2. WolverineWolverine ×5
    3. Converter
    4. WolverineWolverine
    5. Converter
    6. Con turret
    7. WolverineWolverine
    8. PounderPounder
    9. Wind
    10. PounderPounder
    11. Wind ×2
    12. PounderPounder
    13. Wind
    14. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:12 · typical 9:42
    15. Mex
    16. Wind
    17. Con turret
    18. BruteBrute
    19. ThistleThistle
    20. Wind ×2
    21. BruteBrute
    22. Wind
    23. PounderPounder
    24. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    25. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    26. GuardGuard
    27. Wind ×2
    28. PounderPounder
    29. Mex
    30. Wind
    31. PounderPounder
    32. Wind
    33. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    34. GuardGuard
    35. ThistleThistle
    36. Con turret ×2
    37. Advanced solar
    38. Mex
    39. Advanced solar
    40. GuardGuard
    41. Mex
    42. Advanced solar
    43. ThistleThistle
    44. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    45. Advanced solar
    46. Con turret
    47. ThistleThistle
    48. Advanced solar
    49. ThistleThistle
    50. Advanced solar
    51. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    52. ThistleThistle
    53. BruteBrute ×2
    54. ThistleThistle
    55. SAMSAM
    56. BruteBrute
    57. ThistleThistle
    58. BruteBrute
    59. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    60. SAMSAM
    61. ThistleThistle
    62. BruteBrute ×4
    63. Con turret
    64. BruteBrute ×3
    65. Con turret
    66. BruteBrute ×4
    67. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    68. Con turret
    69. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    70. BruteBrute ×6
    71. EradicatorEradicator
    72. ThistleThistle
    73. BruteBrute
    74. RattlesnakeRattlesnakenot finished by 15:00
    75. BruteBrute
    76. Con turret
    77. BruteBrute ×2
    78. Advanced solar
    79. Con turret
    80. RattlesnakeRattlesnake
    81. Advanced solar
    82. IncisorIncisor
    83. Advanced solar
    84. IncisorIncisor
    85. CastroCastro
    86. IncisorIncisor

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is MischievousDragonGF's (43 OS, 24/09/2026); 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

MischievousDragonGF

42.5 OS · 24/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
438 metal received · 43258 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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