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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 · 422 distinct matches · 79 players · 70% of Cortex Suicide front games · team won 51% of 438 · 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 422 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 · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind
    3. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:50 · 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 (50%)

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 3 wind

    The example game in this phase · 30 steps
    1. GraverobberGraverobber
    2. GruntGrunt ×2
    3. Wind
    4. GruntGrunt
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    6. Wind
    7. ThugThug ×2
    8. Mex
    9. ThugThug ×2
    10. Construction BotCon bot
    11. Mex
    12. ThugThug
    13. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    14. GuardGuard
    15. ThugThug ×2
    16. GuardGuard
    17. ThugThug
    18. AggravatorAggravator
    19. ThugThug
    20. AggravatorAggravator
    21. ThugThug
    22. GraverobberGraverobber
    23. AggravatorAggravator
    24. GuardGuard
    25. AggravatorAggravator ×4
    26. Wind
    27. AggravatorAggravator ×4
    28. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    29. AggravatorAggravator
    30. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
  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
    • Thug5 Thug
    • Grunt3 Grunt

    Some games also: aggravator (50%) · energy storage (48%) · Radar Tower (42%) · Twin Guard (32%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 71 steps
    1. Wind
    2. AggravatorAggravator
    3. Wind ×2
    4. AggravatorAggravator
    5. Energy storage
    6. GuardGuard
    7. GraverobberGraverobber
    8. Con turret
    9. GraverobberGraverobber
    10. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    11. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    12. Mex
    13. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    14. AggravatorAggravator
    15. Mex
    16. AggravatorAggravator ×4
    17. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    18. AggravatorAggravator ×4
    19. GruntGrunt ×3
    20. Con turret
    21. GruntGrunt
    22. ThistleThistle
    23. GruntGrunt
    24. Wind
    25. GruntGrunt
    26. Wind
    27. GruntGrunt
    28. GuardGuard
    29. Wind
    30. GruntGrunt ×2
    31. GuardGuard
    32. GruntGrunt ×2
    33. Wind
    34. GruntGrunt ×2
    35. AggravatorAggravator
    36. Wind
    37. AggravatorAggravator
    38. Wind
    39. GraverobberGraverobber
    40. Wind
    41. GraverobberGraverobber
    42. Wind
    43. GuardGuard
    44. AggravatorAggravator
    45. Wind
    46. AggravatorAggravator
    47. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:41 · typical 9:42
    48. AggravatorAggravator
    49. GuardGuard
    50. GraverobberGraverobber
    51. GruntGrunt ×6
    52. Mex
    53. GruntGrunt ×6
    54. GuardGuard
    55. GruntGrunt ×3
    56. GuardGuard
    57. GruntGrunt ×3
    58. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    59. GraverobberGraverobber
    60. Mex
    61. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    62. GuardGuard ×3
    63. Con turret
    64. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 13:04
    65. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    66. Pit BullPit Bull
    67. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    68. Con turret
    69. RattlesnakeRattlesnake
    70. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    71. Con turret ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is hainTsu's (37 OS, 21/08/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:11 · in 69% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:37 · 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

438 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0028500
2:0097000
3:002069195133
4:003161685638
5:00430816561425
6:00553625612419
7:00674535823533
8:00792945134525
9:00919452115491
10:001046559036310
11:001201763667124
12:001361268427999
13:001523475068807
14:001702082639520
15:0018420887210297
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

hainTsu

37.3 OS · 21/08/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
81 metal received · 40036 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=434
Advanced Metal Extractor9:42Middle 50%: 8:47–10:57 · n=284

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