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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
    2. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:27 · 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 · 24 steps
    1. Wind
    2. GraverobberGraverobber
    3. GruntGrunt
    4. GraverobberGraverobber
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    6. GuardGuard
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    9. ThugThug
    10. Mex ×2
    11. ThugThug ×3
    12. Mex ×2
    13. ThugThug
    14. GuardGuard
    15. ThugThug
    16. GuardGuard
    17. ThugThug ×14
    18. AggravatorAggravator ×5
    19. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    20. AggravatorAggravator ×2
    21. ThistleThistle
    22. AggravatorAggravator
    23. Con turret
    24. AggravatorAggravator
  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 · 141 steps
    1. AggravatorAggravator
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. ThugThug ×2
    4. Energy storage
    5. ThugThug ×3
    6. Wind
    7. ThugThug
    8. Wind
    9. ThugThug
    10. Wind
    11. ThugThug
    12. Wind
    13. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    14. ThugThug
    15. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    16. ThugThug
    17. Wind
    18. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    19. ThugThug
    20. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    21. ThugThug
    22. Wind
    23. ThugThug ×2
    24. Wind
    25. ThugThug ×2
    26. Wind
    27. ThugThug
    28. GuardGuard
    29. ThugThug
    30. Wind
    31. ThugThug ×2
    32. Wind
    33. Construction BotCon bot
    34. Wind
    35. ThugThug ×2
    36. Wind
    37. ThugThug ×2
    38. Wind
    39. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:32 · typical 9:42
    40. GraverobberGraverobber
    41. GuardGuard
    42. GraverobberGraverobber
    43. GruntGrunt
    44. Wind
    45. GruntGrunt
    46. GuardGuard
    47. Wind
    48. GruntGrunt
    49. GuardGuard
    50. GruntGrunt
    51. Wind
    52. GruntGrunt ×5
    53. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    54. GruntGrunt ×2
    55. Converter
    56. GruntGrunt ×3
    57. Con turret
    58. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    59. Wind
    60. GruntGrunt
    61. Wind
    62. GruntGrunt
    63. ThistleThistle
    64. Wind
    65. GruntGrunt
    66. Wind
    67. GruntGrunt
    68. Wind
    69. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    70. GruntGrunt
    71. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    72. Wind
    73. GruntGrunt
    74. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    75. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 13:32
    76. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    77. GruntGrunt
    78. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    79. GruntGrunt
    80. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    81. GruntGrunt
    82. Wind
    83. GruntGrunt
    84. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    85. GruntGrunt
    86. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    87. GruntGrunt
    88. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    89. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    90. GruntGrunt
    91. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    92. Wind
    93. GruntGrunt
    94. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    95. GruntGrunt
    96. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    97. GruntGrunt
    98. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    99. GruntGrunt
    100. Wind
    101. GruntGrunt ×2
    102. Wind
    103. GruntGrunt
    104. Wind ×2
    105. GraverobberGraverobber
    106. Wind
    107. GraverobberGraverobber
    108. Wind
    109. GruntGrunt
    110. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    111. Wind
    112. GruntGrunt ×5
    113. Con turret
    114. GruntGrunt ×4
    115. Wind
    116. GruntGrunt
    117. GuardGuard
    118. GruntGrunt
    119. Wind
    120. GruntGrunt ×3
    121. Wind
    122. Mex
    123. GruntGrunt ×2
    124. Wind
    125. GruntGrunt ×2
    126. Wind
    127. GruntGrunt ×4
    128. Wind
    129. GruntGrunt
    130. Mex
    131. GruntGrunt ×2
    132. ArbalestArbalest
    133. Wind
    134. GruntGrunt
    135. FerretFerret
    136. GruntGrunt
    137. Wind
    138. GruntGrunt ×3
    139. Wind
    140. GruntGrunt ×2
    141. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is GuiTou's (35 OS, 29/08/2026); 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

35.4 OS · 29/08/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
361 metal received · 49472 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

_X_59games of this build_Hawkey_34games of this buildGuiTou23games of this buildImmort23games of this buildViltrum22games of this build

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