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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 · 458 distinct matches · 86 players · 71% of Cortex Suicide front games · team won 52% of 474 · 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 458 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
    2. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:27 · 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 · 36 steps
    1. Mex
    2. GruntGrunt
    3. Wind
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. Mex
    6. Wind
    7. GuardGuard
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. Mex
    10. Construction BotCon bot
    11. GuardGuard
    12. ThugThug ×3
    13. Wind
    14. Mex
    15. ThugThug
    16. GuardGuard
    17. ThugThug
    18. GuardGuard
    19. Wind
    20. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    21. Wind
    22. ThugThug ×3
    23. Wind
    24. ThugThug ×2
    25. Wind
    26. ThugThug ×3
    27. Wind
    28. ThugThug ×3
    29. Wind
    30. ThugThug
    31. GruntGrunt
    32. Wind
    33. GruntGrunt ×2
    34. ThugThug ×2
    35. Wind
    36. ThugThug
  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 · 77 steps
    1. ThugThug ×2
    2. Wind
    3. ThugThug ×2
    4. Wind
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    6. Wind
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. ThugThug
    9. Con turret
    10. GraverobberGraverobber
    11. Energy storage
    12. Wind
    13. GraverobberGraverobber
    14. Wind
    15. ThugThug
    16. Con turret
    17. GuardGuard
    18. ThugThug
    19. Wind
    20. GuardGuard
    21. Wind
    22. ThistleThistle
    23. Wind
    24. GuardGuard ×2
    25. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 9:13
    26. GuardGuard
    27. Wind ×7
    28. Converter
    29. Wind ×2
    30. Mex
    31. Wind
    32. Converter
    33. Wind ×2
    34. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    35. Converter
    36. Wind ×8
    37. Converter
    38. Wind
    39. Advanced Construction BotT2 con bot
    40. Wind
    41. Converter
    42. Wind ×5
    43. Converter
    44. Wind ×2
    45. Converter
    46. Wind ×2
    47. Converter
    48. Wind ×4
    49. Converter
    50. PersecutorPersecutordone 11:48
    51. Wind ×15
    52. Twin GuardTwin Guard ×2
    53. Wind ×3
    54. Advanced Construction BotT2 con bot
    55. Wind
    56. Con turret
    57. Wind ×4
    58. TwitcherTwitcher
    59. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 13:13
    60. Wind ×2
    61. TwitcherTwitcher
    62. Wind ×2
    63. TwitcherTwitcher
    64. Wind ×2
    65. TwitcherTwitcher
    66. Wind ×2
    67. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×2
    68. Wind ×2
    69. PersecutorPersecutor
    70. Wind ×5
    71. SkuttleCrawling bombdone 14:36
    72. Wind
    73. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    74. Advanced ExploiterAdvanced Exploiternot finished by 15:00
    75. Wind ×4
    76. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    77. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is SusCheeze's (44 OS, 03/10/2026); 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

474 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0030600
2:0096400
3:002072198133
4:003165723636
5:00432816731430
6:00555025952412
7:00674536233531
8:00795045704501
9:00922452395488
10:001046559906304
11:001201765557138
12:001355670147974
13:001518476858753
14:001697884309413
15:0018420906910163
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

SusCheeze

44.5 OS · 03/10/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units
3637 metal received · 58135 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=470
Advanced Metal Extractor9:46Middle 50%: 8:50–10:57 · n=306

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