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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 · 369 distinct matches · 77 players · 67% of Cortex Suicide front games · team won 51% of 382 · 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 369 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
    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
    • Thug14 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 · 30 steps
    1. Wind
    2. GraverobberGraverobber
    3. GruntGrunt
    4. Wind
    5. GruntGrunt
    6. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    7. Mex ×2
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. GuardGuard
    10. ThugThug ×2
    11. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    12. ThugThug
    13. Mex
    14. ThugThug ×4
    15. GuardGuard
    16. ThugThug
    17. Mex
    18. ThugThug
    19. GuardGuard
    20. ThugThug ×9
    21. GuardGuard
    22. ThugThug
    23. Con turret
    24. ThugThug
    25. GuardGuard
    26. ThugThug
    27. GruntGrunt
    28. Wind ×2
    29. GraverobberGraverobber
    30. Wind
  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 (48%) · Radar Tower (43%) · Twin Guard (32%) · converter (30%)

    By 10:00 in all: 6 mex · 18 wind · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 99 steps
    1. GruntGrunt
    2. Wind
    3. GruntGrunt
    4. Energy storage
    5. GruntGrunt
    6. ThugThug
    7. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    8. Wind
    9. ThugThug
    10. Wind
    11. ThugThug
    12. Wind
    13. ThugThug
    14. GruntGrunt
    15. Wind
    16. ThugThug
    17. GruntGrunt
    18. Wind
    19. GruntGrunt ×2
    20. GuardGuard
    21. Wind
    22. ThugThug ×2
    23. Wind
    24. GuardGuard
    25. ThugThug
    26. Wind
    27. ThugThug ×2
    28. GruntGrunt
    29. ThugThug
    30. GruntGrunt ×2
    31. ThugThug
    32. GruntGrunt
    33. ThugThug ×5
    34. GuardGuard
    35. ThugThug ×2
    36. GraverobberGraverobber
    37. ThugThug ×2
    38. GruntGrunt
    39. Wind
    40. ThugThug
    41. GruntGrunt
    42. Wind
    43. GruntGrunt
    44. ThugThug
    45. GruntGrunt
    46. ThugThug
    47. Wind
    48. ThugThug
    49. Wind
    50. ThugThug ×2
    51. Wind
    52. ThugThug ×2
    53. Wind
    54. Mex
    55. ThugThug
    56. Wind
    57. GruntGrunt
    58. Wind
    59. GruntGrunt
    60. GuardGuard
    61. Wind
    62. GuardGuard
    63. Wind
    64. GruntGrunt ×3
    65. Wind
    66. GruntGrunt ×2
    67. Wind
    68. GruntGrunt
    69. Con turret
    70. GruntGrunt ×2
    71. Con turret
    72. GruntGrunt ×15
    73. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 11:28 · typical 9:40
    74. GruntGrunt ×2
    75. GuardGuard
    76. GruntGrunt
    77. GuardGuard
    78. Con turret
    79. GruntGrunt ×3
    80. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    81. GruntGrunt ×4
    82. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    83. GruntGrunt ×8
    84. Pit BullPit Bull
    85. GraverobberGraverobber
    86. Con turret
    87. GruntGrunt ×3
    88. Fusion ReactorFusionnot finished by 15:00
    89. GruntGrunt
    90. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 14:31
    91. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    92. Converter ×2
    93. GruntGrunt
    94. Converter ×2
    95. GruntGrunt
    96. VeilVeil
    97. GruntGrunt
    98. Converter
    99. Fortification WallFortification Wall

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is GuiTou's (35 OS, 26/09/2026); 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 7:31 · 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

382 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0027500
2:0096400
3:002059193133
4:003151673635
5:00432816931420
6:00553225612403
7:00677035643490
8:00795044984460
9:00923452115483
10:001046558576310
11:001198963667149
12:001361268318150
13:001518475068924
14:001695583189835
15:0018357890410495
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

GuiTou

35.4 OS · 26/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
106 metal received · 12393 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=378
Advanced Metal Extractor9:40Middle 50%: 8:45–10:57 · n=246

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