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Standard suicide front

The role's baseline: bot lab first, economy expands through the first minutes, and Thugs with Aggravators and Grunts carry the fight to the middle as T2 approaches.

#eco #defence · 410 distinct matches · 80 players · 70% of Cortex Suicide front games · team won 51% of 426 · 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 410 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 0:27–0:44

    By 0:18 in all: 1 mex

    The example game in this phase · 2 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:27 · 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 · 39 steps
    1. Mex
    2. GraverobberGraverobber
    3. Mex
    4. GuardGuard
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    6. ThugThug ×4
    7. Wind
    8. ThugThug
    9. Mex
    10. GraverobberGraverobber
    11. Wind
    12. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    13. AggravatorAggravator
    14. Wind
    15. AggravatorAggravator
    16. Mex
    17. AggravatorAggravator
    18. GuardGuard
    19. Wind
    20. AggravatorAggravator
    21. GuardGuard
    22. AggravatorAggravator
    23. GuardGuard
    24. Wind
    25. AggravatorAggravator
    26. GuardGuard
    27. AggravatorAggravator
    28. Wind
    29. AggravatorAggravator
    30. ThugThug ×2
    31. Wind
    32. GuardGuard
    33. ThugThug ×2
    34. Wind
    35. ThugThug ×2
    36. Con turret
    37. ThugThug ×2
    38. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    39. AggravatorAggravator
  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
    • Thug5 Thug
    • Grunt3 Grunt
    • Aggravator1 Aggravator

    Some games also: energy storage (47%) · Radar Tower (42%) · Twin Guard (32%) · Dragon's Teeth (31%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 85 steps
    1. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    2. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    3. Con turret
    4. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    5. Wind ×2
    6. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    7. Wind
    8. AggravatorAggravator
    9. Wind
    10. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    11. Wind
    12. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    13. Wind
    14. AggravatorAggravator
    15. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    16. GruntGrunt
    17. Wind
    18. GruntGrunt
    19. Wind
    20. GruntGrunt ×3
    21. Energy storage
    22. GruntGrunt
    23. AggravatorAggravator ×3
    24. Metal storage
    25. CastroCastro
    26. GruntGrunt ×6
    27. Wind
    28. GruntGrunt ×2
    29. GraverobberGraverobber
    30. Wind
    31. GraverobberGraverobber
    32. Wind
    33. GraverobberGraverobber
    34. GruntGrunt
    35. Wind
    36. GruntGrunt
    37. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 11:56 · typical 9:41
    38. GruntGrunt
    39. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    40. GruntGrunt
    41. Wind
    42. GruntGrunt ×4
    43. Wind
    44. GraverobberGraverobber
    45. GruntGrunt ×2
    46. Wind
    47. GruntGrunt
    48. Wind
    49. GruntGrunt
    50. Wind
    51. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    52. GruntGrunt ×2
    53. Wind
    54. GruntGrunt ×4
    55. Wind
    56. GruntGrunt ×3
    57. Wind
    58. GruntGrunt
    59. Wind
    60. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    61. GruntGrunt
    62. Wind
    63. GruntGrunt ×3
    64. Wind
    65. GruntGrunt ×2
    66. Wind
    67. GruntGrunt ×5
    68. Con turret
    69. GruntGrunt
    70. Construction BotCon bot
    71. RattlesnakeRattlesnakenot finished by 15:00
    72. Con turret
    73. Construction BotCon bot
    74. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    75. Wind
    76. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    77. Wind
    78. Construction BotCon bot
    79. Wind
    80. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    81. Construction BotCon bot
    82. Wind
    83. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    84. GruntGrunt
    85. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is xabre's (48 OS, 18/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:11 · in 69% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:33 · in 56% 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

426 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0027700
2:0096900
3:002064194133
4:003154682645
5:00430316331418
6:00553025392419
7:00672035523537
8:00791944944525
9:00915251605480
10:001040958576293
11:001194663357112
12:001355368317999
13:001518474488814
14:001702082219599
15:0018420878610385
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

xabre

48.5 OS · 18/09/2026

Open source match ↗

20 received units · includes a constructor
319 metal received · 41579 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:34Middle 50%: 0:27–0:44 · n=422
Advanced Metal Extractor9:41Middle 50%: 8:45–10:58 · n=276

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