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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 ×2
    2. Wind
    3. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:42 · 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 · 44 steps
    1. GruntGrunt
    2. Mex
    3. Wind
    4. GraverobberGraverobber
    5. Wind
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Mex
    8. GuardGuard
    9. GruntGrunt
    10. Con turret
    11. GruntGrunt
    12. AggravatorAggravator
    13. GuardGuard
    14. AggravatorAggravator
    15. Mex
    16. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    17. AggravatorAggravator
    18. GuardGuard
    19. AggravatorAggravator
    20. GuardGuard
    21. AggravatorAggravator
    22. Wind
    23. GraverobberGraverobber
    24. Wind
    25. GuardGuard
    26. Wind ×2
    27. Construction BotCon bot
    28. Converter
    29. AggravatorAggravator
    30. Converter
    31. AggravatorAggravator
    32. GuardGuard
    33. AggravatorAggravator
    34. Con turret
    35. AggravatorAggravator
    36. Con turret
    37. Wind
    38. AggravatorAggravator
    39. GraverobberGraverobber
    40. Wind
    41. ThugThug
    42. Wind
    43. ThugThug
    44. 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
    • 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 · 58 steps
    1. ThugThug
    2. Wind
    3. ThugThug
    4. Wind
    5. ThugThug
    6. WardenWarden
    7. GraverobberGraverobber
    8. ThugThug ×3
    9. Wind
    10. ThugThug
    11. Energy storage
    12. ThugThug
    13. Converter
    14. GraverobberGraverobber
    15. Con turret
    16. Converter
    17. Wind
    18. WardenWarden
    19. Wind ×3
    20. CastroCastro
    21. Wind
    22. AgitatorAgitatordone 7:42
    23. Wind
    24. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    25. Wind ×5
    26. Converter ×2
    27. Con turret
    28. Converter ×2
    29. Construction BotCon bot
    30. Converter
    31. CastroCastro
    32. Construction BotCon bot
    33. WardenWarden
    34. Mex
    35. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    36. Con turret ×2
    37. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    38. JellyfishJellyfish ×2
    39. Construction BotCon bot
    40. Con turret
    41. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 11:43
    42. CastroCastro
    43. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    44. Wind ×4
    45. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    46. Wind ×8
    47. DeceiverJammer bot
    48. Wind
    49. AugurRadar bot
    50. SheldonSheldondone 12:09
    51. Wind
    52. SheldonSheldon ×2
    53. Mex
    54. SheldonSheldon ×6
    55. Mex
    56. GuardGuard
    57. SheldonSheldon
    58. GuardGuard

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is arebee's (36 OS, 24/08/2026); 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

arebee

35.6 OS · 24/08/2026

Open source match ↗

13 received units · includes a constructor
40 metal received · 76762 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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