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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 · 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
    • 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 · 32 steps
    1. Wind
    2. GraverobberGraverobber
    3. GuardGuard
    4. GruntGrunt ×2
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. ThugThug ×4
    7. Mex
    8. ThugThug
    9. GraverobberGraverobber
    10. Wind
    11. GraverobberGraverobber
    12. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    13. Construction BotCon bot
    14. Wind
    15. GuardGuard
    16. AggravatorAggravator ×5
    17. Wind
    18. Construction BotCon bot
    19. GraverobberGraverobber
    20. Mex
    21. Wind
    22. ThugThug ×5
    23. Wind
    24. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    25. ThugThug ×3
    26. Wind
    27. ThugThug ×2
    28. Wind
    29. Construction BotCon bot
    30. ThugThug
    31. Wind
    32. ThugThug ×4
  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 · 118 steps
    1. ThugThug
    2. AggravatorAggravator
    3. Wind
    4. ThugThug ×4
    5. Wind
    6. AggravatorAggravator
    7. ThugThug ×3
    8. Con turret
    9. Wind
    10. GraverobberGraverobber
    11. Mex
    12. GraverobberGraverobber
    13. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    14. Wind
    15. ThistleThistle
    16. ThugThug ×2
    17. GuardGuard
    18. ThugThug
    19. Wind
    20. AggravatorAggravator
    21. Construction BotCon bot
    22. GuardGuard
    23. Energy storage
    24. GuardGuard
    25. AggravatorAggravator
    26. ThugThug
    27. Wind
    28. ThugThug
    29. GuardGuard
    30. ThugThug
    31. GraverobberGraverobber
    32. Con turret
    33. Wind
    34. AggravatorAggravator
    35. GraverobberGraverobber
    36. AggravatorAggravator
    37. ThugThug
    38. Wind
    39. ThugThug ×3
    40. GuardGuard
    41. AggravatorAggravator
    42. ThugThug
    43. Wind
    44. ThugThug
    45. GuardGuard
    46. ThugThug ×3
    47. BlitzBlitz
    48. ThistleThistle
    49. Wind
    50. ThugThug ×2
    51. WardenWarden
    52. ThugThug ×4
    53. Wind
    54. CastroCastro
    55. ThugThug ×2
    56. Wind
    57. GraverobberGraverobber ×3
    58. GruntGrunt
    59. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:28 · typical 9:42
    60. Wind
    61. GruntGrunt ×3
    62. EradicatorEradicator
    63. GruntGrunt ×2
    64. Wind
    65. GruntGrunt ×5
    66. Wind
    67. GruntGrunt ×4
    68. Wind
    69. GruntGrunt
    70. Wind
    71. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    72. Wind
    73. GraverobberGraverobber
    74. Wind ×2
    75. Energy storage
    76. GraverobberGraverobber
    77. Wind ×2
    78. GraverobberGraverobber
    79. Con turret
    80. SAMSAM
    81. Wind ×2
    82. Construction BotCon bot
    83. Wind
    84. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    85. Wind
    86. Construction BotCon bot
    87. Wind ×2
    88. Construction BotCon bot
    89. GruntGrunt
    90. Wind
    91. Mex
    92. TrasherTrasher
    93. GruntGrunt
    94. Wind
    95. GruntGrunt ×4
    96. TrasherTrasher
    97. SAMSAM
    98. GruntGrunt ×2
    99. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    100. Metal storage
    101. GruntGrunt ×3
    102. TrasherTrasher
    103. GruntGrunt ×3
    104. Con turret
    105. GruntGrunt
    106. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    107. GruntGrunt
    108. Con turret
    109. GraverobberGraverobber
    110. Con turret ×3
    111. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    112. TrasherTrasher
    113. RattlesnakeRattlesnakenot finished by 15:00
    114. GruntGrunt ×5
    115. TrasherTrasher
    116. GruntGrunt ×4
    117. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labnot finished by 15:00
    118. GruntGrunt

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Rexalidus's (37 OS, 01/10/2026); 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 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

Rexalidus

36.5 OS · 01/10/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
959 metal received · 43933 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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