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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 · 3 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Wind ×3
    3. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:48 · 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 · 19 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. Wind
    3. GraverobberGraverobber
    4. Wind ×2
    5. GruntGrunt ×3
    6. Mex
    7. GraverobberGraverobber
    8. GruntGrunt ×2
    9. ThugThug
    10. Construction BotCon bot
    11. ThugThug ×3
    12. Mex
    13. ThugThug ×2
    14. Construction BotCon bot
    15. Mex
    16. ThugThug
    17. GuardGuard
    18. ThugThug ×5
    19. 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
    • 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 · 114 steps
    1. ThugThug
    2. ThistleThistle
    3. Mex
    4. GuardGuard
    5. Mex
    6. ThugThug
    7. Wind
    8. ThugThug
    9. Wind
    10. ThugThug
    11. Wind
    12. ThugThug
    13. Wind
    14. Mex
    15. Metal storage
    16. Construction BotCon bot
    17. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    18. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    19. Wind
    20. GuardGuard
    21. Construction BotCon bot
    22. ThugThug
    23. Wind
    24. ThugThug
    25. Wind
    26. ThugThug ×2
    27. Wind
    28. ThugThug
    29. Wind
    30. Bot LabBot Labdone 8:14
    31. Wind ×2
    32. ThugThug ×2
    33. Wind
    34. GuardGuard
    35. ThugThug
    36. Wind
    37. ThugThug
    38. Wind
    39. ThugThug
    40. Wind ×2
    41. ThugThug ×2
    42. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    43. Wind ×2
    44. ThugThug ×2
    45. Wind
    46. ThugThug ×2
    47. TrasherTrasher
    48. Wind
    49. ThugThug
    50. Wind
    51. ThugThug ×2
    52. Wind
    53. Con turret
    54. ThugThug
    55. Con turret
    56. ThugThug
    57. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 11:10
    58. Con turret ×3
    59. Wind ×6
    60. Advanced Construction BotT2 con bot
    61. Wind ×2
    62. Converter
    63. Wind
    64. Con turret
    65. Converter
    66. Wind ×5
    67. TwitcherTwitcher
    68. Wind ×2
    69. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 12:14
    70. Wind ×6
    71. Converter ×2
    72. Wind
    73. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    74. Wind ×3
    75. Advanced Construction BotT2 con bot
    76. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    77. Wind ×3
    78. Converter
    79. Wind
    80. Converter
    81. Wind ×2
    82. Converter ×3
    83. Wind
    84. Converter
    85. Wind
    86. TwitcherTwitcher
    87. Wind
    88. Converter
    89. Wind ×3
    90. Converter
    91. TwitcherTwitcher
    92. Wind ×2
    93. TwitcherTwitcher
    94. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    95. Converter ×2
    96. TwitcherTwitcher
    97. Wind ×4
    98. CommanderCommander
    99. Wind ×2
    100. Con turret
    101. Wind ×2
    102. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    103. Converter ×2
    104. Mex
    105. Advanced Construction BotT2 con bot
    106. Wind ×3
    107. ShroudShroud
    108. Wind
    109. Medium MineMedium Mine ×2
    110. Wind ×2
    111. Medium MineMedium Mine
    112. Wind
    113. Medium MineMedium Mine
    114. Fusion ReactorFusionnot finished by 15:00

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is JelousOfMyEco's (36 OS, 18/09/2026); 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

JelousOfMyEco

35.9 OS · 18/09/2026

Open source match ↗

0 received units
10 metal received · 91 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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