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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 0:28 · 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 · 35 steps
    1. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    2. GruntGrunt ×3
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. GruntGrunt ×2
    5. ThugThug
    6. Mex
    7. ThugThug ×3
    8. Mex
    9. ThugThug ×3
    10. GruntGrunt ×2
    11. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    12. GruntGrunt ×2
    13. Construction BotCon botfor Geo
    14. ThugThug ×4
    15. Mex ×2
    16. ThugThug
    17. Construction BotCon bot
    18. Wind
    19. Construction BotCon botfor Geo
    20. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    21. Construction BotCon botfor Geo
    22. Wind
    23. Construction BotCon botfor Geo
    24. Construction BotCon bot
    25. Wind
    26. Construction BotCon bot
    27. ThugThug
    28. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    29. Wind
    30. GraverobberGraverobber
    31. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    32. Wind
    33. GraverobberGraverobber
    34. Wind
    35. ThugThug
  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 · 59 steps
    1. ThugThug ×2
    2. Con turret
    3. ThugThug ×2
    4. Con turretfor Geo
    5. ThugThug
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. AgitatorAgitatornot finished by 15:00
    8. Con turretfor Geo
    9. Con turret
    10. Converter ×3
    11. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Geodone 8:28 · typical 9:40
    12. Windfor Geo
    13. Converter
    14. GuardGuard
    15. Converter
    16. GuardGuard
    17. Windfor Geo
    18. Converter
    19. Windfor Geo
    20. Converter
    21. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    22. Windfor Geo
    23. Converter
    24. Converter ×2for Geo
    25. Wind ×2for Geo
    26. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    27. Wind ×4for Geo
    28. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    29. Wind ×2for Geo
    30. Converter ×2for Geo
    31. Wind ×3for Geo
    32. Pit BullPit Bull
    33. Wind ×4for Geo
    34. RattlesnakeRattlesnakenot finished by 15:00
    35. Windfor Geo
    36. Con turretfor Geo
    37. Windfor Geo
    38. Wind
    39. Windfor Geo
    40. Converterfor Geo
    41. Windfor Geo
    42. Wind
    43. Windfor Geo
    44. Converterfor Geo
    45. Windfor Geo
    46. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    47. Windfor Geo
    48. Wind
    49. Wind ×3for Geo
    50. Con turretfor Geo
    51. Wind ×3for Geo
    52. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    53. Windfor Geo
    54. Wind
    55. Windfor Geo
    56. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    57. Windfor Geo
    58. Con turretfor Geo
    59. Windfor Geo

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is iLike2Eco's (37 OS, 14/09/2026); 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

iLike2Eco

36.9 OS · 14/09/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
108 metal received · 12798 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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