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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is GuiTou's (35 OS, 26/08/2026); 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

GuiTou

35.1 OS · 26/08/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
158 metal received · 20053 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

Played most by

_X_59games of this build_Hawkey_34games of this buildGuiTou23games of this buildImmort23games of this buildViltrum22games of this build

Supporting games

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