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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. Mexfor Geo
    2. Bot LabBot Labfor Geodone 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
    • Aggravator2 Aggravator
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 3 wind

    The example game in this phase · 38 steps
    1. Windfor Geo
    2. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    3. GruntGrunt ×3
    4. Construction BotCon botfor Geo
    5. GuardGuard
    6. Mex
    7. Construction BotCon botfor Geo
    8. Mexfor Geo
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. GruntGrunt ×5
    11. ThugThug ×4
    12. Mex
    13. ThugThug
    14. GraverobberGraverobber
    15. Con turretfor Geo
    16. ThugThug
    17. Mex
    18. ThugThug
    19. Windfor Geo
    20. ThugThug
    21. Windfor Geo
    22. ThugThug
    23. Windfor Geo
    24. ThugThug
    25. Advanced solarfor Geo
    26. Windfor Geo
    27. GuardGuard
    28. GraverobberGraverobber
    29. Windfor Geo
    30. ThugThug
    31. Advanced solarfor Geo
    32. Windfor Geo
    33. Mex
    34. ThugThug ×3
    35. Windfor Geo
    36. ThugThug
    37. GuardGuard
    38. 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 (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 · 26 steps
    1. ThugThug
    2. Wind
    3. GuardGuard
    4. GraverobberGraverobber
    5. ThugThug
    6. Con turret
    7. Windfor Geo
    8. ThugThugfor Geo
    9. Con turret
    10. ThugThugfor Geo
    11. Windfor Geo
    12. Advanced solar
    13. ThugThug ×2for Geo
    14. Windfor Geo
    15. ThugThug ×2for Geo
    16. ThugThug
    17. JellyfishJellyfish
    18. ThugThugfor Geo
    19. Windfor Geo
    20. ThugThugfor Geo
    21. JellyfishJellyfish
    22. ThugThugfor Geo
    23. Mex
    24. Windfor Geo
    25. ThugThugfor Geo
    26. Windfor Geo

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is KingBenjai's (46 OS, 18/09/2026); 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

KingBenjai

46.1 OS · 18/09/2026

Open source match ↗

10 received units · includes a constructor
297 metal received · 11891 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

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