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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 ×3
    2. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:45 · 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 · 28 steps
    1. GruntGrunt
    2. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    3. ThugThug ×4
    4. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    5. GuardGuard
    6. ThugThug ×2
    7. Mex
    8. ThugThug ×2
    9. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    10. ThugThug
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. Mex
    13. GraverobberGraverobber
    14. ThugThug
    15. GuardGuard
    16. ThugThug ×2
    17. GuardGuard
    18. ThugThug ×2
    19. Construction BotCon bot
    20. GraverobberGraverobber
    21. Wind
    22. ThugThug ×3
    23. Wind
    24. ThugThug ×2
    25. Wind
    26. ThugThug
    27. Construction BotCon bot
    28. 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 · 125 steps
    1. GraverobberGraverobber
    2. Wind
    3. JanusJanus
    4. ThugThug ×3
    5. Wind
    6. ThugThug
    7. StoutStout
    8. ThugThug
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Wind
    11. ThugThug
    12. BruteBrute
    13. GraverobberGraverobber
    14. ThugThug
    15. Wind
    16. ThugThug
    17. Metal storage
    18. Mex
    19. BruteBrute
    20. ThugThug
    21. Mex
    22. Wind
    23. CenturionCenturion
    24. JanusJanus
    25. Wind
    26. Metal storage
    27. Mex
    28. GruntGrunt
    29. Wind
    30. StoutStout
    31. GruntGrunt
    32. Wind
    33. JanusJanus
    34. GruntGrunt
    35. Wind
    36. BeholderBeholder
    37. ThugThug
    38. GruntGrunt
    39. Wind
    40. GruntGrunt
    41. Wind
    42. Energy storage
    43. GruntGrunt
    44. Wind
    45. JanusJanus
    46. GruntGrunt
    47. Wind
    48. JanusJanus
    49. GruntGrunt ×3
    50. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    51. GruntGrunt
    52. Wind
    53. GruntGrunt
    54. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    55. GruntGrunt ×2
    56. Wind
    57. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 8:13
    58. BlitzBlitz
    59. GruntGrunt
    60. Wind
    61. BlitzBlitz ×2
    62. Wind
    63. BlitzBlitz
    64. Wind
    65. WhistlerMissile truck
    66. CenturionCenturion
    67. Wind
    68. BlitzBlitz ×3
    69. Wind
    70. BlitzBlitz ×3
    71. Wind
    72. ThugThug
    73. BlitzBlitz ×2
    74. Wind
    75. BlitzBlitz ×2
    76. StoutStout
    77. Wind
    78. ThugThug
    79. BlitzBlitz
    80. Wind
    81. BlitzBlitz
    82. Wind
    83. BlitzBlitz
    84. Wind ×2
    85. BlitzBlitz
    86. Wind ×2
    87. BlitzBlitz
    88. Wind ×4
    89. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 10:37
    90. Wind ×2
    91. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    92. Wind
    93. Con turret
    94. Wind
    95. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    96. Wind ×2
    97. GuardGuard
    98. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    99. Wind
    100. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    101. Wind
    102. Mex
    103. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 12:33
    104. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    105. Wind
    106. GuardGuard
    107. Wind
    108. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    109. GuardGuard
    110. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    111. Wind
    112. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexnot finished by 15:00 · typical 9:42
    113. GuardGuard
    114. Wind
    115. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    116. Wind
    117. GuardGuard
    118. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    119. Wind
    120. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    121. GuardGuard
    122. Wind
    123. FinchFinch
    124. Wind
    125. FinchFinch

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [GerBoyz]Stinkfisch's (38 OS, 22/09/2026); 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

[GerBoyz]Stinkfisch

38.1 OS · 22/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
39 metal received · 22805 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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