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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 · 438 distinct matches · 81 players · 70% of Cortex Suicide front games · team won 51% of 454 · 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 438 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 0:27–0:44

    By 0:18 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
    • Thug15 Thug
    • Grunt3 Grunt
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    Some games also: aggravator (49%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 3 wind

    The example game in this phase · 25 steps
    1. Wind
    2. GruntGrunt ×2
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    5. ThugThug ×2
    6. Mex
    7. ThugThug ×4
    8. Wind ×2
    9. ThugThug
    10. Mex
    11. GraverobberGraverobber
    12. ThugThug ×3
    13. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    14. ThugThug
    15. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    16. ThugThug
    17. GuardGuard
    18. ThugThug ×2
    19. GraverobberGraverobber
    20. ThugThug ×3
    21. GraverobberGraverobber
    22. ThugThug ×3
    23. GraverobberGraverobber
    24. ThugThug ×3
    25. GraverobberGraverobber
  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
    • Thug6 Thug
    • Grunt3 Grunt

    Some games also: aggravator (49%) · energy storage (48%) · Radar Tower (40%) · Twin Guard (31%)

    By 10:00 in all: 6 mex · 18 wind · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 65 steps
    1. ThugThug
    2. GuardGuard ×2
    3. ThugThug ×2
    4. GuardGuard
    5. ThugThug
    6. GraverobberGraverobber
    7. ThugThug ×3
    8. GraverobberGraverobber
    9. ThugThug ×3
    10. GraverobberGraverobber ×4
    11. ThugThug ×3
    12. GraverobberGraverobber
    13. ThugThug ×2
    14. JellyfishJellyfish
    15. ThugThug
    16. GraverobberGraverobber
    17. ThugThug
    18. Energy storage
    19. Construction BotCon bot
    20. GuardGuard
    21. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    22. ThugThug ×2
    23. Wind
    24. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:47
    25. Mex
    26. Wind
    27. GraverobberGraverobber
    28. Wind
    29. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    30. ThugThug
    31. Wind
    32. Mex
    33. ThugThug
    34. Wind
    35. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    36. ThugThug
    37. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    38. GraverobberGraverobber
    39. ThugThug
    40. PersecutorPersecutordone 13:11
    41. ThugThug
    42. Construction BotCon bot
    43. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    44. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    45. CatalystCatalystdone 14:53
    46. Wind
    47. Construction BotCon bot
    48. BirdshotBirdshot
    49. Construction BotCon bot
    50. Wind
    51. ThugThug
    52. Wind
    53. GraverobberGraverobber
    54. ThugThug
    55. Construction BotCon bot
    56. Wind ×5
    57. Construction BotCon bot
    58. Con turret
    59. Wind
    60. Con turret
    61. Wind ×2
    62. Con turret
    63. Wind ×4
    64. CatalystCatalyst
    65. Con turret

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is XXMACGAMERXX's (37 OS, 02/10/2026); 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 69% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:37 · in 56% 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

454 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0029400
2:0096600
3:002069195133
4:003157695636
5:00430316651428
6:00554025722408
7:00673335823531
8:00792245134501
9:00916852115488
10:001040959036293
11:001194664207134
12:001354168557974
13:001511875068753
14:001695582639442
15:0018266887210231
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

XXMACGAMERXX

37.0 OS · 02/10/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
158 metal received · 86713 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:34Middle 50%: 0:27–0:44 · n=450
Advanced Metal Extractor9:43Middle 50%: 8:50–10:58 · n=292

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