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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 · 2 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:45 · 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 · 32 steps
    1. GraverobberGraverobber
    2. GruntGrunt
    3. GraverobberGraverobber
    4. GruntGrunt
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. ThugThug ×5
    7. GraverobberGraverobber
    8. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    9. ThugThug
    10. Mex
    11. ThugThug ×2
    12. GuardGuard
    13. ThugThug ×2
    14. GraverobberGraverobber
    15. Construction BotCon bot
    16. ThugThug
    17. Wind
    18. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×6
    19. ThugThug
    20. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    21. Wind
    22. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    23. Con turret
    24. ThugThug
    25. Wind
    26. ThugThug
    27. Wind ×2
    28. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    29. GraverobberGraverobber
    30. Wind
    31. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    32. Converter
  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 · 149 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    3. Wind
    4. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Wind
    9. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    10. Wind
    11. ThugThug
    12. Wind
    13. GraverobberGraverobber
    14. ThugThug
    15. Wind
    16. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    17. Wind
    18. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    19. Wind
    20. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    21. Wind
    22. Con turret
    23. AggravatorAggravator
    24. Wind
    25. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    26. Wind
    27. Con turret
    28. AggravatorAggravator
    29. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    30. Wind
    31. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    32. Converter
    33. Wind
    34. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    35. GuardGuard
    36. AggravatorAggravator ×4
    37. Mex
    38. AggravatorAggravator
    39. Mex ×2
    40. GruntGrunt ×8
    41. Converter
    42. GruntGrunt
    43. Con turret
    44. Wind
    45. GruntGrunt
    46. Wind
    47. Converter
    48. GruntGrunt
    49. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    50. Wind
    51. Converter
    52. GruntGrunt
    53. Converter
    54. Wind
    55. GruntGrunt
    56. Wind ×2
    57. GruntGrunt
    58. Wind
    59. GruntGrunt ×2
    60. Wind
    61. GruntGrunt
    62. Wind
    63. GruntGrunt
    64. Wind
    65. GruntGrunt ×2
    66. Wind ×2
    67. GruntGrunt ×2
    68. Wind
    69. GuardGuard
    70. Energy storage
    71. Wind
    72. GruntGrunt
    73. Wind ×4
    74. GraverobberGraverobber
    75. Wind ×3
    76. GraverobberGraverobber
    77. Wind
    78. GruntGrunt
    79. Wind
    80. GruntGrunt
    81. Wind
    82. GruntGrunt
    83. Wind
    84. GruntGrunt ×2
    85. Wind
    86. GruntGrunt
    87. Wind
    88. GruntGrunt
    89. Wind
    90. GruntGrunt ×2
    91. AgitatorAgitatordone 12:40
    92. Mex
    93. Wind
    94. GruntGrunt ×2
    95. Wind ×2
    96. GruntGrunt ×2
    97. Wind
    98. GruntGrunt
    99. Wind ×2
    100. GruntGrunt
    101. Converter
    102. GruntGrunt
    103. Mex
    104. Wind
    105. Mex ×2
    106. Converter
    107. GruntGrunt
    108. Wind
    109. GruntGrunt
    110. Wind ×2
    111. GruntGrunt
    112. Wind ×2
    113. GruntGrunt
    114. Wind
    115. Converter
    116. GruntGrunt
    117. Converter
    118. GruntGrunt
    119. Wind
    120. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    121. Converter
    122. GruntGrunt
    123. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    124. Wind
    125. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    126. GruntGrunt ×2
    127. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    128. GruntGrunt
    129. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    130. Converter
    131. Wind
    132. GruntGrunt
    133. Wind ×2
    134. GuardGuard
    135. GruntGrunt
    136. Wind
    137. GruntGrunt
    138. Converter
    139. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 13:55 · typical 9:42
    140. GruntGrunt ×4
    141. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    142. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    143. GruntGrunt ×3
    144. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    145. CastroCastro
    146. GruntGrunt
    147. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    148. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    149. GruntGrunt

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Kcorp's (51 OS, 20/09/2026); 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

Kcorp

51.3 OS · 20/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
214 metal received · 11263 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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