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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 · 48 steps
    1. Mex
    2. GraverobberGraverobber
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. GuardGuard
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    6. Mex ×2
    7. GuardGuard
    8. GraverobberGraverobber
    9. AggravatorAggravator
    10. Mex
    11. AggravatorAggravator
    12. Mex
    13. Construction BotCon bot
    14. GuardGuard
    15. Wind
    16. AggravatorAggravator
    17. GuardGuard
    18. AggravatorAggravator
    19. Wind
    20. AggravatorAggravator
    21. GuardGuard
    22. AggravatorAggravator
    23. GuardGuard
    24. Wind
    25. AggravatorAggravator
    26. GuardGuard
    27. AggravatorAggravator
    28. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    29. Wind
    30. AggravatorAggravator ×3
    31. GraverobberGraverobber
    32. GuardGuard ×2
    33. GraverobberGraverobber
    34. GuardGuard ×2
    35. AggravatorAggravator ×3
    36. GuardGuard
    37. AggravatorAggravator ×3
    38. GuardGuard
    39. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    40. GuardGuard
    41. AggravatorAggravator
    42. ThugThug
    43. AggravatorAggravator
    44. GuardGuard
    45. Construction BotCon bot
    46. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    47. Construction BotCon bot
    48. Con turret
  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 · 107 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. AggravatorAggravator
    3. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    4. AggravatorAggravator ×4
    5. ThugThug
    6. AggravatorAggravator ×3
    7. Energy storage
    8. AggravatorAggravator
    9. Wind
    10. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    11. Con turret
    12. Wind
    13. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    14. Wind ×2
    15. GraverobberGraverobber
    16. Con turret
    17. GraverobberGraverobber
    18. Twin GuardTwin Guard ×2
    19. Wind
    20. GraverobberGraverobber
    21. Wind ×2
    22. Con turret
    23. Wind
    24. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 8:16
    25. Wind
    26. GuardGuard
    27. Converter
    28. Wind
    29. GuardGuard
    30. Wind
    31. GuardGuard ×4
    32. Converter
    33. GuardGuard
    34. Wind
    35. GuardGuard
    36. Wind ×2
    37. SheldonSheldondone 8:40
    38. Converter
    39. Wind
    40. FiendFiend
    41. SheldonSheldon
    42. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:46 · typical 9:42
    43. Wind
    44. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    45. Converter
    46. Wind
    47. FiendFiend
    48. Wind
    49. Converter
    50. Wind ×3
    51. GuardGuard ×2
    52. Converter
    53. Wind
    54. GuardGuard
    55. Construction BotCon bot
    56. Wind
    57. Con turret
    58. Wind
    59. Converter
    60. Wind
    61. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    62. Wind ×2
    63. Converter
    64. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    65. Wind ×2
    66. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 13:01
    67. Wind
    68. Converter
    69. Wind ×2
    70. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    71. Wind
    72. Converter
    73. Con turret
    74. Wind ×3
    75. Converter
    76. Wind
    77. GuardGuard
    78. Wind
    79. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 13:16
    80. Wind
    81. BruteBrute
    82. Converter
    83. IncisorIncisor
    84. Wind
    85. IncisorIncisor ×3
    86. Wind
    87. IncisorIncisor ×3
    88. Wind
    89. IncisorIncisor ×2
    90. Converter
    91. IncisorIncisor
    92. Wind
    93. IncisorIncisor ×2
    94. Con turret
    95. Wind
    96. Con turret
    97. IncisorIncisor
    98. Wind
    99. Converter
    100. Wind
    101. IncisorIncisor ×2
    102. Bot LabBot Labdone 14:55
    103. IncisorIncisor
    104. Wind ×2
    105. Converter
    106. IncisorIncisor
    107. GraverobberGraverobber

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Erilium's (46 OS, 25/09/2026); 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

Erilium

45.7 OS · 25/09/2026

Open source match ↗

9 received units · includes a constructor
246 metal received · 39834 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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