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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 · 2 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:27 · 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 · 36 steps
    1. GruntGrunt
    2. GraverobberGraverobber
    3. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    4. Mex
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. GraverobberGraverobber
    7. ThugThug
    8. Mex ×2
    9. ThugThug
    10. GuardGuard
    11. ThugThug
    12. GraverobberGraverobber
    13. Wind
    14. ThugThug
    15. Mex
    16. Wind
    17. GuardGuard
    18. ThugThug ×2
    19. GuardGuard
    20. GraverobberGraverobber
    21. Wind
    22. ThugThug ×3
    23. Wind
    24. ThugThug
    25. AggravatorAggravator
    26. Wind
    27. AggravatorAggravator ×3
    28. Wind
    29. Construction BotCon bot
    30. ThugThug ×3
    31. Wind
    32. ThugThug ×2
    33. Wind
    34. ThugThug ×2
    35. Wind
    36. ThugThug ×2
  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 · 43 steps
    1. ThugThug
    2. Wind
    3. ThugThug ×2
    4. Con turret
    5. ThugThug ×3
    6. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    7. Energy storage
    8. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    9. Converter
    10. ThugThug
    11. Converter
    12. Wind
    13. ThugThug
    14. Wind
    15. ThugThug
    16. Mex
    17. ThugThug
    18. GraverobberGraverobber ×3
    19. Con turret
    20. ThugThug
    21. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:44
    22. ThugThug
    23. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×2
    24. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 13:37
    25. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    26. Wind ×6
    27. FiendFiend
    28. Wind ×3
    29. FiendFiend
    30. Wind ×3
    31. FiendFiend
    32. Wind ×3
    33. FiendFiend
    34. Wind ×2
    35. FiendFiend
    36. Wind ×2
    37. FiendFiend
    38. Wind ×2
    39. FiendFiend
    40. Wind
    41. ArbiterArbiternot finished by 15:00
    42. SheldonSheldonnot finished by 15:00
    43. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is xabre's (47 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

xabre

47.3 OS · 04/10/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
264 metal received · 12820 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

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