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Standard suicide front

Cortex Suicide front build order · Supreme Isthmus

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 · 463 distinct matches · 86 players · 71% of Cortex Suicide front games · team won 52% of 479 · 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 463 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 2 mexdone ~0:35, middle half 0:27–0:45

    By 0:19 in all: 1 mex

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind
    3. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:51 · typical 0:35
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    Builders
    • Graverobber4 Graverobber
    • Construction Bot3 Con bot
    Army
    • Guard3 Guard
    • Thug15 Thug
    • Grunt3 Grunt
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: aggravator (47%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 3 wind

    The example game in this phase · 34 steps
    1. GruntGrunt
    2. GraverobberGraverobber
    3. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    4. GruntGrunt
    5. GraverobberGraverobber
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. ThugThug ×5
    8. Wind
    9. ThugThug
    10. Mex
    11. ThugThug ×2
    12. GraverobberGraverobber
    13. ThugThug ×3
    14. Mex
    15. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    16. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    17. TrasherTrasher
    18. ThugThug
    19. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    20. GruntGrunt ×4
    21. Wind
    22. ThugThug
    23. GruntGrunt
    24. Wind ×2
    25. GruntGrunt
    26. Construction BotCon bot
    27. GraverobberGraverobber
    28. Construction BotCon bot
    29. GraverobberGraverobber
    30. Construction BotCon bot
    31. Wind
    32. Construction BotCon bot
    33. GraverobberGraverobber
    34. Con turret
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine13Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Graverobber3 Graverobber
    • Construction Bot1 Con bot
    Army
    • Guard1 Guard
    • Thug7 Thug
    • Grunt3 Grunt

    Some games also: energy storage (48%) · aggravator (47%) · Radar Tower (41%) · Twin Guard (31%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 123 steps
    1. GraverobberGraverobber
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. Mex
    4. ThugThug
    5. GraverobberGraverobber
    6. ThugThug
    7. CenturionCenturion
    8. Mex
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Wind
    11. ThugThug
    12. Wind
    13. ThugThug
    14. Wind
    15. ThugThug
    16. Wind ×2
    17. ThugThug
    18. Wind ×2
    19. ThugThug
    20. Wind
    21. GraverobberGraverobber
    22. ThugThug
    23. TrasherTrasher
    24. Advanced solar
    25. Energy storage
    26. ThugThug
    27. AgitatorAgitatordone 8:29
    28. ThugThug ×3
    29. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:09 · typical 9:48
    30. ThugThug ×2
    31. GraverobberGraverobber
    32. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    33. Mex
    34. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    35. Mex
    36. Construction BotCon bot
    37. Con turret
    38. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    39. Construction BotCon bot
    40. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    41. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    42. Con turret
    43. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    44. Advanced solar
    45. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    46. Construction BotCon bot
    47. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    48. GruntGrunt ×5
    49. Con turret
    50. GraverobberGraverobber ×3
    51. GruntGrunt ×3
    52. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    53. GruntGrunt ×5
    54. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 11:55
    55. GruntGrunt ×9
    56. Con turret
    57. GruntGrunt ×3
    58. Construction BotCon bot
    59. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 13:02
    60. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    61. CastroCastro
    62. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    63. GruntGrunt
    64. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    65. GruntGrunt
    66. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    67. GruntGrunt ×2
    68. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    69. GruntGrunt
    70. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 13:39
    71. GruntGrunt
    72. JunoJuno
    73. GruntGrunt ×4
    74. Con turret
    75. GruntGrunt
    76. Wind
    77. Con turret
    78. GruntGrunt
    79. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    80. Wind
    81. GruntGrunt
    82. BlitzBlitz
    83. GruntGrunt
    84. Wind
    85. GruntGrunt
    86. TickTick
    87. Wind
    88. GruntGrunt
    89. Wind
    90. GraverobberGraverobber
    91. SumoSumodone 13:56
    92. GraverobberGraverobber
    93. Fusion ReactorFusion
    94. Wind
    95. GraverobberGraverobber
    96. SumoSumo
    97. Wind
    98. GraverobberGraverobber
    99. Wind
    100. GraverobberGraverobber
    101. Wind
    102. GruntGrunt
    103. Wind
    104. TickTick
    105. GruntGrunt
    106. Wind
    107. SumoSumo
    108. GruntGrunt
    109. Wind
    110. GruntGrunt
    111. CenturionCenturion
    112. GruntGrunt
    113. Wind
    114. ThugThug
    115. ArbalestArbalest
    116. GruntGrunt
    117. Mex
    118. Wind
    119. GruntGrunt ×2
    120. Wind
    121. GruntGrunt
    122. SumoSumo
    123. GruntGrunt

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is _Hawkey_'s (62 OS, 04/10/2026); 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 68% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:37 · 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

479 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0030600
2:0096100
3:002070198136
4:003166713636
5:00432716651433
6:00554925922423
7:00674036083530
8:00793645654498
9:00922052315472
10:001045359866283
11:001201365467131
12:001356170087959
13:001521776788729
14:001699484199402
15:0018452903810162
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

_Hawkey_

62.4 OS · 04/10/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
14 metal received · 43575 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:35Middle 50%: 0:27–0:45 · n=475
Advanced Metal Extractor9:48Middle 50%: 8:50–10:58 · n=310

Played most by

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