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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 0:46 · 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 · 28 steps
    1. GruntGrunt
    2. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    3. GruntGrunt
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. ThugThug ×3
    6. Mex
    7. ThugThug ×2
    8. Wind
    9. ThugThug ×5
    10. Mex
    11. GraverobberGraverobber
    12. ThugThug
    13. GruntGrunt
    14. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    15. SentrySentry
    16. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    17. GruntGrunt
    18. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    19. ThugThug
    20. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    21. GraverobberGraverobber
    22. ThugThug ×2
    23. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    24. ThugThug ×2
    25. GraverobberGraverobber
    26. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    27. TrasherTrasher
    28. GruntGrunt ×4
  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 · 115 steps
    1. GruntGrunt ×2
    2. ThugThug
    3. GruntGrunt
    4. ThugThug
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. ThugThug
    7. Solar
    8. Mex
    9. ThugThug
    10. GruntGrunt
    11. Wind
    12. Solar
    13. ThugThug
    14. GruntGrunt
    15. Solar
    16. Wind
    17. ThugThug ×3
    18. RocketeerRocketeer
    19. ThugThug
    20. Energy storage
    21. Wind ×2
    22. CenturionCenturion
    23. Mex
    24. GraverobberGraverobber
    25. GruntGrunt ×2
    26. Wind
    27. GruntGrunt
    28. ThugThug ×4
    29. Wind
    30. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:36 · typical 9:42
    31. GraverobberGraverobber
    32. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    33. ThugThug
    34. GruntGrunt ×2
    35. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    36. Wind
    37. GruntGrunt
    38. ThugThug
    39. Wind
    40. ThugThug
    41. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    42. SumoSumodone 8:43
    43. Wind
    44. ThugThug
    45. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    46. Construction BotCon bot
    47. ThugThug
    48. Wind
    49. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    50. Construction BotCon bot
    51. Wind
    52. GraverobberGraverobber
    53. Wind
    54. Mex
    55. Con turret
    56. GruntGrunt ×2
    57. Con turret
    58. GruntGrunt
    59. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    60. GraverobberGraverobber
    61. Con turret
    62. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    63. Con turret
    64. GruntGrunt
    65. Advanced solar
    66. GruntGrunt
    67. Wind
    68. GruntGrunt
    69. Wind
    70. GraverobberGraverobber
    71. Wind
    72. GruntGrunt
    73. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    74. Wind
    75. GruntGrunt
    76. Wind
    77. GruntGrunt
    78. Wind
    79. GraverobberGraverobber
    80. GruntGrunt
    81. Wind
    82. GruntGrunt
    83. Wind
    84. Advanced solar
    85. GruntGrunt
    86. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    87. Wind ×2
    88. GraverobberGraverobber
    89. Wind
    90. Advanced solar
    91. LazarusLazarus
    92. GruntGrunt ×2
    93. Wind
    94. GruntGrunt
    95. Experimental GantryExperimental Gantrynot finished by 15:00
    96. Advanced solar
    97. GraverobberGraverobber
    98. GruntGrunt
    99. Advanced solar
    100. GruntGrunt ×2
    101. Advanced solar ×2
    102. GraverobberGraverobber
    103. Advanced solar
    104. GruntGrunt
    105. Mex
    106. Con turret
    107. GruntGrunt
    108. Advanced solar
    109. GruntGrunt
    110. Advanced solar
    111. GraverobberGraverobber
    112. JunoJuno
    113. GruntGrunt ×2
    114. Con turret
    115. GruntGrunt

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is _Hawkey_'s (60 OS, 25/09/2026); 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

_Hawkey_

60.0 OS · 25/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
95 metal received · 48450 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

Played most by

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