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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 · 31 steps
    1. Mex
    2. GraverobberGraverobber
    3. Wind
    4. GruntGrunt
    5. GuardGuard
    6. GruntGrunt ×2
    7. GraverobberGraverobber
    8. GruntGrunt ×2
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. ThugThug ×5
    11. Mex
    12. Construction BotCon bot
    13. Mex
    14. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    15. ThugThug ×3
    16. Mex
    17. ThugThug ×2
    18. GuardGuard
    19. Construction BotCon bot
    20. GuardGuard
    21. GraverobberGraverobber
    22. GuardGuard
    23. ThugThug ×3
    24. GuardGuard
    25. ThugThug ×6
    26. Mex
    27. ThugThug
    28. GuardGuard
    29. ThugThug
    30. Construction BotCon bot
    31. Radar TowerRadar Tower
  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 · 146 steps
    1. ThugThug ×3
    2. GuardGuard
    3. Solar
    4. ThugThug ×2
    5. Solar
    6. ThugThug
    7. GuardGuard
    8. ThugThug
    9. Wind
    10. ThugThug
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. Wind
    13. ThugThug
    14. Wind
    15. GuardGuard
    16. ThugThug
    17. Wind
    18. ThugThug ×2
    19. JellyfishJellyfish
    20. Wind
    21. ThugThug
    22. GuardGuard
    23. Wind
    24. ThugThug ×2
    25. Wind
    26. ThugThug
    27. GuardGuard
    28. Con turret
    29. ThugThug
    30. GuardGuard
    31. ThugThug
    32. GuardGuard
    33. ThugThug
    34. GuardGuard
    35. OppressorDestroyernot finished by 15:00
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:25 · typical 9:41
    37. SentrySentry
    38. Mex
    39. GuardGuard
    40. Mex
    41. Con turret
    42. GuardGuard ×2
    43. Con turret
    44. Mex
    45. GuardGuard
    46. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 10:09
    47. GuardGuard
    48. Con turret ×2
    49. BeamerBeamer
    50. GruntGrunt
    51. Con turret ×2
    52. SharpshooterSniper botdone 10:37
    53. GruntGrunt
    54. GuardGuard
    55. Con turret
    56. GruntGrunt
    57. Bot LabBot Labdone 10:47
    58. SharpshooterSniper bot
    59. Con turret
    60. GruntGrunt ×3
    61. ThistleThistle
    62. OverwatchOverwatch
    63. GruntGrunt ×2
    64. HoundHound
    65. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    66. GruntGrunt
    67. HoundHound
    68. GruntGrunt
    69. JellyfishJellyfish
    70. HoundHound
    71. GruntGrunt
    72. ThistleThistle
    73. HoundHound
    74. GruntGrunt ×2
    75. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    76. GruntGrunt
    77. HoundHound
    78. GruntGrunt ×2
    79. JellyfishJellyfish
    80. GruntGrunt
    81. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    82. GruntGrunt
    83. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    84. HoundHound
    85. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    86. GruntGrunt
    87. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    88. GruntGrunt
    89. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    90. GruntGrunt ×2
    91. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    92. GruntGrunt
    93. HoundHound
    94. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    95. GruntGrunt
    96. Advanced solar
    97. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    98. Tidal
    99. GruntGrunt
    100. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    101. Wind
    102. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    103. Tidal
    104. GruntGrunt
    105. Advanced solar
    106. Wind
    107. GruntGrunt
    108. GuardGuard
    109. GruntGrunt
    110. Advanced solar
    111. Tidal
    112. GruntGrunt
    113. Wind
    114. GruntGrunt
    115. Wind
    116. GruntGrunt
    117. HoundHound
    118. Wind
    119. GruntGrunt
    120. Tidal
    121. Advanced solar
    122. GruntGrunt
    123. HoundHound
    124. Wind
    125. GruntGrunt
    126. PrudePrudedone 13:36
    127. HoundHound
    128. GruntGrunt
    129. Wind ×2
    130. HoundHound
    131. Wind
    132. GruntGrunt
    133. Wind
    134. GruntGrunt
    135. Wind
    136. GruntGrunt
    137. HoundHound
    138. Wind
    139. GruntGrunt ×4
    140. HoundHound
    141. GruntGrunt
    142. SmugglerJammer bot
    143. CompassRadar bot
    144. GruntGrunt ×2
    145. SmugglerJammer bot
    146. GruntGrunt

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is tedsterr's (44 OS, 23/08/2026); 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

44.3 OS · 23/08/2026

Open source match ↗

116 received units · includes a constructor
630 metal received · 117001 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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