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Standard suicide front

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 · 410 distinct matches · 80 players · 70% of Cortex Suicide front games · team won 51% of 426 · 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 410 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 0:27–0:44

    By 0:18 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
    • Aggravator1 Aggravator
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 3 wind

    The example game in this phase · 39 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. Wind
    4. GraverobberGraverobber
    5. GruntGrunt ×2
    6. Mex
    7. GruntGrunt
    8. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    9. GuardGuard
    10. Construction BotCon bot
    11. Mex
    12. ThugThug ×2
    13. AggravatorAggravator
    14. Mex
    15. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    16. Mex
    17. GuardGuard
    18. AggravatorAggravator
    19. GruntGrunt
    20. GuardGuard ×2
    21. Wind
    22. AggravatorAggravator
    23. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    24. GraverobberGraverobber
    25. Wind
    26. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    27. Wind
    28. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    29. Wind
    30. AggravatorAggravator
    31. GraverobberGraverobber
    32. Energy storage
    33. AggravatorAggravator
    34. GuardGuard
    35. AggravatorAggravator
    36. Mex
    37. AggravatorAggravator ×3
    38. GraverobberGraverobber
    39. Construction BotCon bot
  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
    • Thug5 Thug
    • Grunt3 Grunt
    • Aggravator1 Aggravator

    Some games also: energy storage (47%) · Radar Tower (42%) · Twin Guard (32%) · Dragon's Teeth (31%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 91 steps
    1. Wind
    2. AggravatorAggravator
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. GruntGrunt ×3
    5. Mex
    6. GruntGrunt
    7. Wind
    8. GruntGrunt ×4
    9. Wind
    10. GruntGrunt ×4
    11. Con turret
    12. GruntGrunt
    13. Construction BotCon bot
    14. SentrySentry
    15. Construction BotCon bot
    16. Con turret
    17. GruntGrunt ×7
    18. Con turret
    19. GruntGrunt
    20. Metal storage
    21. SentrySentry
    22. GruntGrunt ×5
    23. GraverobberGraverobber ×3
    24. SentrySentry
    25. GraverobberGraverobber
    26. GruntGrunt ×8
    27. Mex
    28. GruntGrunt ×3
    29. SentrySentry
    30. GruntGrunt ×6
    31. SentrySentry
    32. GruntGrunt ×2
    33. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:27 · typical 9:41
    34. GruntGrunt ×4
    35. Wind
    36. GruntGrunt ×2
    37. Wind
    38. GruntGrunt
    39. Wind
    40. GruntGrunt ×2
    41. Wind
    42. GruntGrunt ×2
    43. Wind
    44. Con turret
    45. GruntGrunt ×2
    46. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    47. GruntGrunt
    48. Wind
    49. SentrySentry
    50. GruntGrunt
    51. Wind
    52. SentrySentry
    53. GruntGrunt
    54. Wind
    55. GruntGrunt
    56. SentrySentry
    57. GruntGrunt
    58. Wind
    59. GruntGrunt ×2
    60. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    61. GruntGrunt
    62. Wind
    63. GruntGrunt
    64. Wind
    65. GruntGrunt
    66. Wind
    67. GruntGrunt ×2
    68. Wind
    69. GruntGrunt ×3
    70. Wind
    71. GruntGrunt
    72. Con turret
    73. Construction BotCon bot
    74. Wind
    75. Construction BotCon bot
    76. Wind
    77. Construction BotCon bot
    78. Wind
    79. Construction BotCon bot
    80. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    81. Con turret
    82. Wind
    83. GruntGrunt ×2
    84. Con turret
    85. GruntGrunt
    86. Wind
    87. GruntGrunt ×5
    88. Wind
    89. GruntGrunt ×3
    90. Wind
    91. GruntGrunt

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Xad's (43 OS, 29/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:11 · in 69% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:33 · in 56% 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

426 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0027700
2:0096900
3:002064194133
4:003154682645
5:00430316331418
6:00553025392419
7:00672035523537
8:00791944944525
9:00915251605480
10:001040958576293
11:001194663357112
12:001355368317999
13:001518474488814
14:001702082219599
15:0018420878610385
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

Xad

42.9 OS · 29/09/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
666 metal received · 44081 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:34Middle 50%: 0:27–0:44 · n=422
Advanced Metal Extractor9:41Middle 50%: 8:45–10:58 · n=276

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