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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 · 80 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 · 1 step
    1. Bot LabBot Labfor Frontdone 0:20 · 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 · 45 steps
    1. Mexfor Front
    2. Construction BotCon botfor Front
    3. Mexfor Front
    4. Wind ×3for Front
    5. GruntGrunt
    6. Windfor Front
    7. GruntGrunt
    8. Mexfor Front
    9. Construction BotCon botfor Front
    10. GuardGuard
    11. Construction BotCon botfor Front
    12. Mex
    13. Windfor Front
    14. GraverobberGraverobber
    15. GraverobberGraverobberfor Front
    16. Windfor Front
    17. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    18. ThugThug
    19. GuardGuard
    20. ThugThug
    21. Mex
    22. Windfor Front
    23. ThugThug
    24. GuardGuard
    25. ThugThug
    26. Windfor Front
    27. ThugThug ×3
    28. Windfor Front
    29. ThugThug ×3
    30. Windfor Front
    31. ThugThug ×2
    32. Windfor Front
    33. ThugThug
    34. Mex
    35. ThugThug ×2
    36. Windfor Front
    37. Construction BotCon botfor Front
    38. GuardGuard
    39. GruntGrunt
    40. Windfor Front
    41. GuardGuard
    42. GruntGrunt
    43. Construction BotCon bot ×2for Front
    44. Windfor Front
    45. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
  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 · 40 steps
    1. ThugThug
    2. Windfor Front
    3. ThugThug ×3
    4. Windfor Front
    5. ThugThug ×4
    6. Converterfor Front
    7. Windfor Front
    8. ThugThug ×3
    9. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    10. Windfor Front
    11. Converterfor Front
    12. ThugThug ×2
    13. GuardGuard
    14. ThugThug
    15. Windfor Front
    16. ThugThug
    17. GuardGuard
    18. Converterfor Front
    19. Construction BotCon botfor Front
    20. GruntGrunt ×2
    21. Windfor Front
    22. Construction BotCon botfor Front
    23. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Frontdone 9:53 · typical 9:42
    24. Construction BotCon botfor Front
    25. Converterfor Front
    26. GraverobberGraverobber
    27. Windfor Front
    28. GraverobberGraverobber
    29. ThugThugfor Front
    30. Windfor Front
    31. Converterfor Front
    32. ThugThug ×2for Front
    33. Windfor Front
    34. Converterfor Front
    35. ThugThug ×4for Front
    36. Windfor Front
    37. ThugThugfor Front
    38. Converterfor Front
    39. ThugThugfor Front
    40. Windfor Front

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is PixelPeeker's (43 OS, 07/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:11 · 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
2:0096900
3:002066195133
4:003157684638
5:00430616451425
6:00553425542419
7:00673835643533
8:00792245054525
9:00917552115491
10:001043959036310
11:001200663667136
12:001357268428025
13:001523475068814
14:001702082639542
15:0018420883110330
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

PixelPeeker

42.7 OS · 07/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
11 metal received · 3629 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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