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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 0:44 · 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 · 33 steps
    1. Wind
    2. GruntGrunt
    3. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. GruntGrunt
    6. Con turret
    7. ThugThug ×2
    8. Wind
    9. Mex
    10. ThugThug ×4
    11. Mex
    12. ThugThug
    13. GuardGuard
    14. ThugThug ×2
    15. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    16. ThugThug
    17. GruntGrunt
    18. GraverobberGraverobber
    19. ThugThug ×2
    20. TrasherTrasher
    21. GraverobberGraverobber
    22. Construction BotCon bot
    23. ThugThug ×2
    24. GraverobberGraverobber
    25. GuardGuard
    26. ThugThug
    27. GraverobberGraverobber
    28. ThugThug ×4
    29. GruntGrunt ×5
    30. ThugThug ×2
    31. Wind
    32. ThugThug
    33. 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 (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 · 70 steps
    1. ThugThug
    2. Wind
    3. ThugThug
    4. Wind
    5. GraverobberGraverobber
    6. Wind
    7. GraverobberGraverobber
    8. Wind
    9. GraverobberGraverobber
    10. Wind
    11. Con turret
    12. Wind ×2
    13. GraverobberGraverobber
    14. Wind
    15. SentrySentry
    16. Mex
    17. GruntGrunt
    18. Wind
    19. GruntGrunt
    20. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:05 · typical 9:42
    21. GruntGrunt
    22. Wind
    23. GruntGrunt
    24. SentrySentry
    25. Wind
    26. GruntGrunt ×2
    27. AggravatorAggravator
    28. Wind ×2
    29. ThugThug
    30. Construction BotCon bot
    31. Wind
    32. Construction BotCon bot
    33. ThugThug
    34. Wind
    35. GruntGrunt
    36. Wind
    37. GruntGrunt
    38. Mex
    39. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    40. Mex
    41. GruntGrunt ×4
    42. ThugThug
    43. GruntGrunt
    44. Con turret
    45. Construction BotCon bot
    46. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    47. Mex
    48. Wind
    49. Construction BotCon bot
    50. Energy storage
    51. GruntGrunt
    52. Wind
    53. GruntGrunt
    54. GraverobberGraverobber
    55. Wind
    56. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    57. GruntGrunt
    58. Mex
    59. GruntGrunt ×2
    60. Con turret
    61. GruntGrunt ×2
    62. Wind
    63. GruntGrunt
    64. Wind
    65. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    66. GruntGrunt
    67. Wind
    68. GruntGrunt
    69. Wind
    70. GruntGrunt ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is _Hawkey_'s (58 OS, 19/09/2026); 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_

58.2 OS · 19/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
273 metal received · 41726 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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