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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 · 369 distinct matches · 77 players · 67% of Cortex Suicide front games · team won 51% of 382 · 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 369 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 0:44 · 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
    • Aggravator1 Aggravator
    Other
    • Radar Tower1 Radar Tower

    By 5:00 in all: 5 mex · 3 wind

    The example game in this phase · 33 steps
    1. Wind
    2. GraverobberGraverobber
    3. Wind
    4. GraverobberGraverobber
    5. Wind
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Con turret
    8. ThugThug
    9. Wind
    10. ThugThug
    11. Energy storage
    12. ThugThug
    13. Mex
    14. Wind
    15. ThugThug ×2
    16. Wind
    17. ThugThug
    18. Mex
    19. Wind
    20. ThugThug
    21. GuardGuard
    22. Wind
    23. ThugThug
    24. Wind
    25. ThugThug ×3
    26. Wind
    27. ThugThug ×2
    28. Wind
    29. ThugThug
    30. Wind
    31. ThugThug
    32. Wind
    33. ThugThug ×7
  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 (48%) · Radar Tower (43%) · Twin Guard (32%) · converter (30%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 67 steps
    1. ThugThug ×2
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. ThugThug
    4. GraverobberGraverobber
    5. ThugThug
    6. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    7. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    8. CastroCastro
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. GruntGrunt ×3
    13. Wind
    14. GruntGrunt ×4
    15. Wind
    16. GruntGrunt ×3
    17. Wind
    18. GraverobberGraverobber
    19. Wind
    20. GruntGrunt
    21. Wind
    22. GruntGrunt
    23. Mex
    24. GruntGrunt
    25. Wind
    26. GruntGrunt
    27. Wind
    28. GruntGrunt ×3
    29. Wind
    30. GruntGrunt ×2
    31. Wind
    32. GruntGrunt
    33. GraverobberGraverobber
    34. Wind
    35. GruntGrunt
    36. Wind
    37. GruntGrunt ×2
    38. Wind
    39. GruntGrunt ×2
    40. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    41. Wind
    42. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    43. GruntGrunt
    44. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    45. GruntGrunt
    46. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    47. GruntGrunt
    48. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    49. GruntGrunt ×2
    50. GraverobberGraverobber
    51. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    52. GruntGrunt ×2
    53. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    54. GruntGrunt
    55. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    56. GruntGrunt
    57. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    58. GruntGrunt ×2
    59. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    60. GruntGrunt ×4
    61. GraverobberGraverobber
    62. GruntGrunt ×3
    63. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Frontdone 11:15 · typical 9:40
    64. GruntGrunt ×7
    65. GraverobberGraverobber
    66. GruntGrunt ×10
    67. CastroCastro

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is BM_akumar6's (44 OS, 27/09/2026); 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 7:31 · 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

382 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0027500
2:0096400
3:002059193133
4:003151673635
5:00432816931420
6:00553225612403
7:00677035643490
8:00795044984460
9:00923452115483
10:001046558576310
11:001198963667149
12:001361268318150
13:001518475068924
14:001695583189835
15:0018357890410495
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

BM_akumar6

43.5 OS · 27/09/2026

Open source match ↗

10 received units
55 metal received · 20582 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=378
Advanced Metal Extractor9:40Middle 50%: 8:45–10:57 · n=246

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