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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 · 458 distinct matches · 86 players · 71% of Cortex Suicide front games · team won 52% of 474 · 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 458 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 0:18 in all: 1 mex

    The example game in this phase · 2 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:35 · 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 · 38 steps
    1. GraverobberGraverobber
    2. GruntGrunt ×5
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Mex
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Mex ×2
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. GuardGuard ×2
    9. ThugThug
    10. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    11. ThugThug
    12. GuardGuard
    13. ThugThug
    14. Con turret
    15. ThugThug
    16. Wind
    17. ThugThug
    18. Wind
    19. ThugThug ×3
    20. Wind
    21. ThugThug ×3
    22. GraverobberGraverobber
    23. Energy storage
    24. Wind
    25. GraverobberGraverobber
    26. GuardGuard
    27. ThugThug
    28. Wind
    29. ThugThug ×2
    30. LazarusLazarus
    31. ThugThug
    32. Mex
    33. ThugThug
    34. Wind
    35. ThugThug ×3
    36. GuardGuard
    37. ThugThug
    38. Wind
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine13Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Graverobber2 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 · 116 steps
    1. ThugThug
    2. Mex
    3. Wind
    4. RocketeerRocketeer
    5. GruntGrunt ×2
    6. Wind
    7. GruntGrunt
    8. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    9. LazarusLazarus
    10. GuardGuard
    11. GruntGrunt ×2
    12. GraverobberGraverobber
    13. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    14. GuardGuard
    15. Wind
    16. ThugThug ×2
    17. GraverobberGraverobber
    18. ThugThug
    19. GraverobberGraverobber
    20. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    21. Mex
    22. Wind
    23. ThugThug
    24. GraverobberGraverobber
    25. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    26. ThugThug
    27. GraverobberGraverobber
    28. GruntGrunt
    29. Wind
    30. GuardGuard
    31. GruntGrunt ×4
    32. ThugThug
    33. GruntGrunt
    34. PawnPawn
    35. Wind
    36. GruntGrunt ×2
    37. PawnPawn
    38. GruntGrunt
    39. GuardGuard
    40. GruntGrunt ×2
    41. ThugThug
    42. GruntGrunt
    43. PawnPawn
    44. Wind
    45. GruntGrunt
    46. PawnPawn
    47. GruntGrunt
    48. Con turret
    49. ThugThug
    50. GruntGrunt
    51. ThugThug
    52. GruntGrunt
    53. ThugThug
    54. Con turret
    55. ThugThug ×2
    56. GruntGrunt
    57. RocketeerRocketeer
    58. Wind
    59. Con turret
    60. ThugThug
    61. GruntGrunt ×2
    62. Metal storage
    63. ThugThug
    64. GruntGrunt
    65. GuardGuard
    66. GruntGrunt
    67. ThugThug
    68. GruntGrunt ×3
    69. ThugThug
    70. Wind
    71. ThugThug
    72. RocketeerRocketeer
    73. GuardGuard
    74. GruntGrunt
    75. ThugThug
    76. GruntGrunt
    77. ThugThug
    78. GruntGrunt
    79. ThugThug
    80. Wind
    81. GruntGrunt ×7
    82. Wind
    83. GruntGrunt ×11
    84. Mex
    85. Wind
    86. GruntGrunt ×3
    87. GuardGuard
    88. GruntGrunt ×9
    89. Wind
    90. GruntGrunt ×4
    91. GuardGuard
    92. GruntGrunt ×5
    93. ThugThug
    94. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:11
    95. ThugThug
    96. Wind
    97. Bot LabBot Labdone 10:21
    98. ThugThug ×4
    99. Wind
    100. ThugThug
    101. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    102. ThugThug
    103. GuardGuard
    104. Construction BotCon bot
    105. ThugThug
    106. Construction BotCon bot
    107. Wind
    108. CastroCastro
    109. Con turret
    110. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    111. Con turret
    112. Wind
    113. Construction BotCon bot
    114. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    115. Wind
    116. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is KolachePlayz's (42 OS, 02/10/2026); 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

474 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0030600
2:0096400
3:002072198133
4:003165723636
5:00432816731430
6:00555025952412
7:00674536233531
8:00795045704501
9:00922452395488
10:001046559906304
11:001201765557138
12:001355670147974
13:001518476858753
14:001697884309413
15:0018420906910163
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

KolachePlayz

41.5 OS · 02/10/2026

Open source match ↗

92 received units · includes a constructor
508 metal received · 71394 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=470
Advanced Metal Extractor9:46Middle 50%: 8:50–10:57 · n=306

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