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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 · 459 distinct matches · 86 players · 71% of Cortex Suicide front games · team won 52% of 475 · 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 459 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 ×3
    2. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:45 · 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 · 34 steps
    1. GruntGrunt
    2. GraverobberGraverobber
    3. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    4. GruntGrunt
    5. Wind
    6. GraverobberGraverobber
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Wind
    9. ThugThug ×3
    10. Mex
    11. ThugThug ×3
    12. GraverobberGraverobber
    13. ThugThug ×3
    14. Mex
    15. GraverobberGraverobber
    16. ThugThug
    17. TrasherTrasher
    18. ThugThug
    19. GuardGuard
    20. ThugThug
    21. GraverobberGraverobber
    22. GruntGrunt
    23. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    24. GraverobberGraverobber
    25. SentrySentry
    26. GraverobberGraverobber
    27. Wind
    28. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    29. GruntGrunt
    30. Wind
    31. GruntGrunt ×8
    32. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    33. ThugThug
    34. Con turret
  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 · 83 steps
    1. ThugThug ×4
    2. AgitatorAgitatordone 6:52
    3. Wind
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. Wind ×3
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Wind ×5
    8. ThistleThistle
    9. Wind ×2
    10. GraverobberGraverobber
    11. Wind
    12. GraverobberGraverobber
    13. ThistleThistle
    14. ThugThug ×3
    15. Energy storage
    16. ThugThug
    17. Con turret
    18. ThugThug
    19. Con turret
    20. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    21. ThugThug
    22. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    23. GraverobberGraverobber
    24. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    25. Wind
    26. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    27. Advanced solar
    28. ThugThug
    29. Wind
    30. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    31. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:36 · typical 9:48
    32. Wind
    33. SAMSAM
    34. ThugThug ×2
    35. Wind
    36. Mex
    37. ThugThug
    38. Wind ×4
    39. ThugThug
    40. Wind
    41. ThugThug
    42. Wind ×2
    43. ThugThug ×2
    44. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    45. ThugThug
    46. GraverobberGraverobber
    47. Mex
    48. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    49. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    50. GraverobberGraverobber ×4
    51. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    52. GraverobberGraverobber
    53. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    54. GraverobberGraverobber
    55. GruntGrunt ×2
    56. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    57. GruntGrunt ×5
    58. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    59. GruntGrunt ×4
    60. Construction BotCon bot
    61. GruntGrunt ×8
    62. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 13:46
    63. GruntGrunt ×3
    64. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    65. GruntGrunt ×4
    66. Advanced solar
    67. GruntGrunt ×2
    68. Con turret
    69. GruntGrunt ×4
    70. Con turret
    71. GruntGrunt
    72. Advanced solar
    73. GruntGrunt ×3
    74. Advanced solar
    75. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    76. GruntGrunt
    77. Advanced solar
    78. GruntGrunt ×3
    79. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    80. GruntGrunt ×2
    81. PawnPawn
    82. Advanced solar
    83. GruntGrunt ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is _Hawkey_'s (62 OS, 04/10/2026); 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

475 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0030600
2:0096400
3:002073198133
4:003166732636
5:00432916801430
6:00555025972410
7:00674936373530
8:00796345654498
9:00922752315488
10:001047659866303
11:001202065467136
12:001356170087959
13:001521776788729
14:001699484199402
15:0018452903810162
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

_Hawkey_

62.5 OS · 04/10/2026

Open source match ↗

14 received units · includes a constructor
194 metal received · 51419 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=471
Advanced Metal Extractor9:48Middle 50%: 8:50–10:58 · n=307

Played most by

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