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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 · 421 distinct matches · 80 players · 70% of Cortex Suicide front games · team won 51% of 437 · 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 421 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 · 2 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:27 · 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
    • Thug15 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 · 29 steps
    1. Wind
    2. GraverobberGraverobber
    3. Mex
    4. GruntGrunt ×3
    5. GraverobberGraverobber
    6. GruntGrunt
    7. GuardGuard
    8. GruntGrunt
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. ThugThug ×3
    11. Wind
    12. Mex
    13. ThugThug ×2
    14. Construction BotCon bot
    15. ThugThug
    16. Mex
    17. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    18. ThugThug ×3
    19. GuardGuard
    20. ThugThug
    21. Construction BotCon bot
    22. ThugThug ×5
    23. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    24. GuardGuard
    25. ThugThug ×2
    26. Mex
    27. ThugThug
    28. GuardGuard
    29. ThugThug ×2
  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

    Some games also: aggravator (50%) · energy storage (48%) · Radar Tower (42%) · Twin Guard (32%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 152 steps
    1. Solar
    2. GraverobberGraverobber
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Solar
    5. ThugThug ×7
    6. Solar
    7. ThugThug
    8. GraverobberGraverobber
    9. ThugThug ×4
    10. Wind
    11. ThugThug ×2
    12. Wind
    13. ThugThug
    14. GuardGuard
    15. ThugThug
    16. Construction BotCon bot
    17. Wind
    18. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    19. ThugThug
    20. Wind
    21. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    22. ThugThug
    23. GraverobberGraverobber
    24. GuardGuard
    25. Con turret
    26. GraverobberGraverobber
    27. ThugThug
    28. AggravatorAggravator
    29. ThugThug
    30. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    31. ThugThug
    32. Con turret
    33. AggravatorAggravator
    34. GuardGuard
    35. Wind
    36. GuardGuard
    37. Wind
    38. Con turret
    39. Wind
    40. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    41. Wind
    42. GraverobberGraverobber
    43. Construction BotCon bot
    44. Mex
    45. Construction BotCon bot
    46. Wind
    47. Construction BotCon bot
    48. GuardGuard
    49. Construction BotCon bot
    50. Wind
    51. ThugThug
    52. GraverobberGraverobber
    53. Advanced solar
    54. GraverobberGraverobber
    55. GuardGuard
    56. Wind ×2
    57. ThugThug
    58. Wind
    59. GuardGuard
    60. Advanced solar
    61. ThugThug
    62. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:44
    63. ThugThug
    64. Wind ×2
    65. GuardGuard
    66. ThugThug
    67. Wind
    68. GraverobberGraverobber
    69. Wind
    70. GraverobberGraverobber
    71. Wind ×2
    72. Advanced solar
    73. ThugThug
    74. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    75. Wind ×2
    76. ThugThug
    77. Wind
    78. Cortex CommanderCortex Commanderfor Front
    79. Wind
    80. ThugThug
    81. GuardGuard
    82. Wind
    83. ThugThug
    84. Wind
    85. Advanced solar
    86. ThugThug
    87. Wind
    88. Mex
    89. GraverobberGraverobber
    90. GuardGuard
    91. Wind
    92. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    93. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    94. Wind
    95. GraverobberGraverobber
    96. Wind
    97. GuardGuard
    98. ThugThug
    99. Wind
    100. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    101. Wind ×2
    102. GuardGuard
    103. Wind ×3
    104. GraverobberGraverobber
    105. BanisherBanisherdone 12:52
    106. GraverobberGraverobber
    107. Wind
    108. GraverobberGraverobber
    109. Wind
    110. GraverobberGraverobber
    111. ThugThug
    112. Wind
    113. ThugThug ×2
    114. Wind
    115. ThugThug
    116. Wind
    117. ThugThug ×2
    118. Wind
    119. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    120. Mex
    121. ThugThug
    122. Construction BotCon bot
    123. Wind ×2
    124. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    125. Wind ×2
    126. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    127. Wind
    128. PersecutorPersecutordone 14:34
    129. Wind
    130. Construction BotCon bot
    131. Wind
    132. Construction BotCon bot
    133. Wind
    134. Construction BotCon bot
    135. Wind ×2
    136. Construction BotCon bot
    137. Wind
    138. Advanced solar
    139. Construction BotCon bot
    140. Wind ×2
    141. ScorpionScorpion
    142. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    143. Advanced solar
    144. Wind ×2
    145. Construction BotCon bot
    146. Wind
    147. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    148. Wind
    149. Advanced solar
    150. Wind
    151. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    152. Construction BotCon bot

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is tedsterr's (43 OS, 08/08/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:11 · in 69% 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

437 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0028300
2:0096900
3:002065195133
4:003157683636
5:00430616421423
6:00553325472414
7:00673635533532
8:00792145024504
9:00917052045488
10:001042458806305
11:001199863567131
12:001356168318008
13:001521774748816
14:001701882639556
15:0018387881010349
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

tedsterr

42.6 OS · 08/08/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
233 metal received · 8755 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=433
Advanced Metal Extractor9:41Middle 50%: 8:47–10:58 · n=283

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