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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 · 27 steps
    1. Mex
    2. GraverobberGraverobber
    3. Wind ×2
    4. Mex
    5. GruntGrunt
    6. GraverobberGraverobber
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. GruntGrunt
    9. Mex
    10. GruntGrunt
    11. Mex
    12. GruntGrunt ×3
    13. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    14. Wind
    15. GraverobberGraverobber
    16. GuardGuard
    17. Mex
    18. ThugThug ×4
    19. GuardGuard
    20. ThugThug
    21. GuardGuard
    22. GraverobberGraverobber
    23. AggravatorAggravator
    24. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    25. AggravatorAggravator
    26. Mex
    27. AggravatorAggravator ×11
  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 · 57 steps
    1. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    2. GraverobberGraverobber ×3
    3. AggravatorAggravator ×8
    4. BeholderBeholder
    5. AggravatorAggravator
    6. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    7. AggravatorAggravator ×6
    8. GraverobberGraverobber ×4
    9. Con turret
    10. GraverobberGraverobber
    11. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:50 · typical 9:42
    12. GruntGrunt
    13. AggravatorAggravator
    14. GruntGrunt
    15. Wind
    16. GruntGrunt
    17. GuardGuard
    18. Wind
    19. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    20. GuardGuard
    21. Wind
    22. GruntGrunt
    23. Wind
    24. Construction BotCon bot
    25. Wind
    26. Solar
    27. UmbraJammer
    28. Wind ×5
    29. GuardGuard
    30. Wind ×2
    31. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    32. Construction BotCon bot
    33. GuardGuard
    34. Wind
    35. GuardGuard
    36. Wind ×2
    37. UmbraJammer
    38. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×9
    39. Energy storage
    40. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    41. Con turret
    42. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    43. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×2
    44. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    45. GuardGuard
    46. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×2
    47. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    48. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×3
    49. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    50. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 13:43
    51. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    52. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×22
    53. GuardGuard
    54. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    55. GuardGuard
    56. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    57. ThistleThistle

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is UsurpeR's (43 OS, 23/09/2026); 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

UsurpeR

42.9 OS · 23/09/2026

Open source match ↗

29 received units · includes a constructor
843 metal received · 20126 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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