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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
    2. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:26 · 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 · 29 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. GuardGuard
    4. Wind
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Mex
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Mex
    9. GuardGuard
    10. GraverobberGraverobber
    11. ThugThug ×3
    12. GuardGuard
    13. ThugThug
    14. Mex
    15. ThugThug
    16. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    17. GuardGuard
    18. GraverobberGraverobber
    19. GuardGuard
    20. ThugThug ×2
    21. GuardGuard
    22. ThugThug ×3
    23. GraverobberGraverobber
    24. ThugThug ×5
    25. GraverobberGraverobber
    26. ThugThug ×5
    27. Con turret
    28. GraverobberGraverobber
    29. 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 · 145 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. Wind
    3. WardenWarden
    4. Wind ×2
    5. ThugThug
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Wind ×2
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. Con turret
    10. CastroCastro
    11. ThugThugfor Front
    12. Con turret
    13. ThugThug ×2for Front
    14. Energy storage
    15. ThugThug ×3for Front
    16. Wind ×2
    17. ThugThugfor Front
    18. Wind
    19. ThugThugfor Front
    20. Wind
    21. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:25 · typical 9:42
    22. ThugThug
    23. Wind
    24. GraverobberGraverobber
    25. Wind ×4
    26. CastroCastro
    27. Wind ×3
    28. GraverobberGraverobber
    29. Wind
    30. GraverobberGraverobber
    31. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    32. Wind
    33. GraverobberGraverobber
    34. Wind ×2
    35. ThugThug ×2
    36. Wind
    37. Con turret
    38. ThugThug
    39. Wind ×2
    40. ThugThug
    41. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    42. ThugThug
    43. Wind ×2
    44. ThugThug ×2
    45. GruntGrunt
    46. ThugThug
    47. Wind ×2
    48. GruntGrunt ×3
    49. Wind ×2
    50. GruntGrunt ×2
    51. Wind
    52. GruntGrunt
    53. Wind
    54. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    55. GruntGrunt ×2
    56. CastroCastro
    57. Wind
    58. GruntGrunt
    59. ThugThug
    60. Wind ×2
    61. GruntGrunt ×2
    62. Wind
    63. GruntGrunt
    64. Wind
    65. GruntGrunt ×3
    66. Wind ×2
    67. GruntGrunt ×3
    68. Wind ×2
    69. GruntGrunt ×3
    70. Wind
    71. Construction BotCon bot
    72. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 12:23
    73. Wind
    74. GruntGrunt
    75. Wind
    76. GruntGrunt ×2
    77. Wind
    78. GruntGrunt ×3
    79. Wind ×2
    80. GruntGrunt ×3
    81. Wind ×2
    82. GruntGrunt ×4
    83. Wind ×2
    84. GruntGrunt ×4
    85. Wind
    86. GruntGrunt
    87. Wind
    88. GruntGrunt
    89. Con turret
    90. GruntGrunt
    91. Wind ×2
    92. GruntGrunt
    93. Con turret
    94. Wind ×2
    95. GruntGrunt
    96. Con turret
    97. GruntGrunt
    98. Wind ×2
    99. Con turret
    100. GruntGrunt
    101. Bot LabBot Labdone 13:31
    102. GruntGrunt
    103. Wind
    104. GruntGrunt ×3
    105. Con turret
    106. Wind
    107. GruntGrunt ×4
    108. Con turret
    109. GruntGrunt ×2
    110. Pit BullPit Bull
    111. GruntGrunt
    112. Wind
    113. GruntGrunt ×2
    114. Con turret ×2
    115. GruntGrunt ×7
    116. Bot LabBot Labdone 14:09
    117. GruntGrunt
    118. Wind
    119. GruntGrunt ×6
    120. Wind
    121. GruntGrunt ×3
    122. Con turret
    123. Wind
    124. GruntGrunt ×8
    125. Wind
    126. GruntGrunt ×2
    127. GraverobberGraverobber
    128. GruntGrunt
    129. Wind
    130. GruntGrunt ×3
    131. GraverobberGraverobber
    132. GruntGrunt ×3
    133. Wind
    134. GruntGrunt
    135. GraverobberGraverobber
    136. GruntGrunt
    137. Con turret
    138. Wind
    139. GruntGrunt
    140. GraverobberGraverobber
    141. GruntGrunt ×2
    142. GraverobberGraverobber
    143. Wind ×2
    144. Pit BullPit Bull
    145. Con turret

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is SkyFireEX's (37 OS, 23/09/2026); 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

SkyFireEX

37.1 OS · 23/09/2026

Open source match ↗

21 received units · includes a constructor
199 metal received · 81275 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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