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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 · 422 distinct matches · 79 players · 70% of Cortex Suicide front games · team won 51% of 438 · 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 422 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
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: aggravator (50%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 3 wind

    The example game in this phase · 39 steps
    1. GruntGrunt
    2. GraverobberGraverobber
    3. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    4. Mex
    5. GraverobberGraverobber
    6. ThugThug
    7. Mex ×2
    8. GuardGuard
    9. ThugThug ×2
    10. GraverobberGraverobber
    11. Wind
    12. ThugThug
    13. Mex
    14. ThugThug
    15. Wind
    16. ThugThug ×2
    17. Wind
    18. ThugThug ×2
    19. GuardGuard
    20. Construction BotCon bot
    21. Wind
    22. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    23. Wind
    24. AggravatorAggravator ×4
    25. Wind
    26. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    27. ThugThug
    28. AggravatorAggravator
    29. Wind
    30. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    31. GraverobberGraverobber
    32. GuardGuard
    33. Wind
    34. GuardGuard
    35. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    36. Wind
    37. AggravatorAggravator
    38. Mex
    39. AggravatorAggravator
  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 · 72 steps
    1. GraverobberGraverobber
    2. Wind
    3. ThugThug ×3
    4. Con turret
    5. ThugThug ×8
    6. Energy storage
    7. ThugThug ×3
    8. Converter
    9. ThugThug ×2
    10. Converter
    11. ThugThug ×2
    12. Wind
    13. ThugThug
    14. GraverobberGraverobber
    15. Wind
    16. GraverobberGraverobber
    17. Wind ×2
    18. GraverobberGraverobber
    19. Wind
    20. GraverobberGraverobber
    21. Wind
    22. GraverobberGraverobber
    23. Wind
    24. GraverobberGraverobber
    25. ThugThug
    26. Wind
    27. GraverobberGraverobber
    28. Wind
    29. GraverobberGraverobber
    30. ThugThug
    31. Wind
    32. ThugThug ×12
    33. RocketeerRocketeer
    34. ThugThug ×3
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
    36. ThugThug ×7
    37. Construction BotCon bot
    38. StoutStout
    39. ThugThug ×2
    40. AggravatorAggravator
    41. ThugThug ×4
    42. RocketeerRocketeer
    43. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 12:07 · typical 9:42
    44. ThugThug ×3
    45. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    46. RocketeerRocketeer
    47. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    48. ThugThug ×2
    49. GruntGrunt ×4
    50. TrasherTrasher ×3
    51. GruntGrunt ×7
    52. Mex
    53. GruntGrunt ×3
    54. Wind
    55. GruntGrunt ×2
    56. Wind
    57. GruntGrunt ×3
    58. ThugThug
    59. Wind
    60. ThugThug
    61. Wind
    62. ThugThug ×4
    63. Wind
    64. ThugThug ×2
    65. Wind
    66. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    67. Wind
    68. GraverobberGraverobber
    69. Wind
    70. GraverobberGraverobber
    71. Energy storage
    72. GraverobberGraverobber ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is xabre's (47 OS, 30/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:11 · 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

438 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0028500
2:0097000
3:002069195133
4:003161685638
5:00430816561425
6:00553625612419
7:00674535823533
8:00792945134525
9:00919452115491
10:001046559036310
11:001201763667124
12:001361268427999
13:001523475068807
14:001702082639520
15:0018420887210297
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

xabre

47.4 OS · 30/09/2026

Open source match ↗

29 received units · includes a constructor
110 metal received · 7752 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=434
Advanced Metal Extractor9:42Middle 50%: 8:47–10:57 · n=284

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