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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 · 4 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. GuardGuard
    3. Mex
    4. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:54 · 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 · 20 steps
    1. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    2. GruntGrunt ×3
    3. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    4. Mex
    5. ThugThug
    6. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    7. ThugThug ×4
    8. GuardGuard
    9. ThugThug
    10. Mex
    11. ThugThug
    12. GuardGuard
    13. ThugThug ×2
    14. GuardGuard
    15. ThugThug
    16. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    17. ThugThug ×10
    18. Mex
    19. Construction BotCon bot
    20. 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 · 108 steps
    1. ThugThug ×3
    2. Con turret
    3. ThugThug
    4. Wind
    5. ThugThug
    6. Wind
    7. Con turret
    8. ThugThug
    9. Wind ×2
    10. ThugThug
    11. Wind
    12. ThugThug ×2
    13. Wind
    14. Construction BotCon bot
    15. ThugThug
    16. Wind
    17. ThugThug
    18. Construction BotCon bot
    19. Wind
    20. Construction BotCon bot
    21. GruntGrunt
    22. Wind
    23. GruntGrunt ×2
    24. GraverobberGraverobber
    25. Wind
    26. GraverobberGraverobber
    27. Wind
    28. Energy storage
    29. GruntGrunt
    30. Wind
    31. GruntGrunt ×3
    32. Wind
    33. GruntGrunt ×4
    34. Wind
    35. GruntGrunt ×4
    36. Wind
    37. GruntGrunt ×2
    38. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:55 · typical 9:42
    39. GruntGrunt ×2
    40. Wind
    41. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    42. GruntGrunt ×4
    43. Wind
    44. GruntGrunt ×2
    45. Wind
    46. GruntGrunt
    47. Wind
    48. GruntGrunt ×3
    49. Wind
    50. GruntGrunt ×2
    51. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    52. GruntGrunt
    53. Wind
    54. GruntGrunt ×2
    55. Wind
    56. GruntGrunt
    57. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    58. Wind
    59. Con turret
    60. Wind
    61. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    62. JellyfishJellyfish
    63. Con turret
    64. Wind
    65. Con turret
    66. Wind
    67. Pit BullPit Bull
    68. Mex
    69. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 13:15
    70. Wind
    71. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    72. Converter
    73. Wind ×2
    74. Converter
    75. Con turret
    76. Wind
    77. Converter
    78. Wind
    79. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    80. Con turret
    81. Wind
    82. Converter
    83. Wind
    84. Converter
    85. Wind
    86. Con turret
    87. Wind
    88. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    89. Converter
    90. ShipyardShipyarddone 13:18
    91. Wind
    92. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    93. Converter
    94. Wind ×2
    95. Converter
    96. OrcaSubmarinedone 13:44
    97. Wind
    98. OrcaSubmarine
    99. Wind ×2
    100. OrcaSubmarine
    101. Wind ×2
    102. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    103. OrcaSubmarine
    104. Wind ×2
    105. OrcaSubmarine
    106. Wind ×2
    107. OrcaSubmarine ×2
    108. Wind ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is GuiTou's (35 OS, 22/08/2026); 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

GuiTou

35.3 OS · 22/08/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
666 metal received · 24613 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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