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Blitz raid

Pond skips straight to a Vehicle Plant by 3:37 and pushes a Blitz-led tank raid into the middle from around 4:14, with units reaching the enemy base in over half its games, before settling into the usual eco transition.

#raid #rush · 53 distinct matches · 30 players · 6% of Armada Pond games · team won 64% of 53 · Recently observed

THE CATCH, AND WHAT COMES WITH IT
  • BlitzT1 vehicle raid from 4:14 · 5% of role by thenFrom the Vehicle Plant. Only 5% of Pond games have it by then; others who build it get it around 8:33
  • Vehicle PlantVehicle Plant in 98%8% of all Pond games by then
  • BlitzBlitz in 74%5% of all Pond games by then

Started with Blitz (70%), Pincer (21%), Rover (8%), Rascal (2%).

Where those units first fight, in 53 games with kill data: in the middle 74%, on their own side 17%, in the enemy base 9%.

Those units destroy a typical 1,529 metal of enemy units by 15:00.

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Vehicle Plant by 3:37

  1. Open tidals and mexes as usual, boosting the fronts early.
  2. Skip the bot-lab-first pattern and rush a Vehicle Plant instead.
  3. Get the plant finished well ahead of the normal Pond timing.
  4. Push Blitz out to raid the middle and into the enemy base.
  5. Add a Bot Lab and transition toward the usual T2 constructor step.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 53 GAMES · AGAINST STANDARD POND
  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 T1 vehicle raid

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Tidal Generator8Tidalfor allies
    • Wind Turbine8Wind
    • Tidal Generator1Tidal
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Order
    1. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plant after 4 mex, 6 wind, 1 tidal
    2. BlitzT1 vehicle raid after 4 mex, 8 wind, 1 tidal

    Some games also: converter (40%) · con vehicle (38%)

    By 4:14 in all: 4 mex · 8 wind · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 20 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Mex ×3
    4. Converter
    5. Wind ×5
    6. Converter
    7. Wind ×2
    8. Mex
    9. Wind ×3
    10. Converter
    11. Wind ×2
    12. Con turret
    13. Wind
    14. Con turret
    15. Wind
    16. Energy storage
    17. Wind ×7
    18. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 5:28 · typical 3:54
    19. Wind
    20. BlitzBlitzdone 5:35
  2. 2

    T1 vehicle raid to Bot Lab

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine14Wind−6 vs standard
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 4 mex, 22 wind, 2 con turretdone ~9:50, middle half 3:12–12:00
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret
    • Construction Vehicle1 Con vehicle
    Army
    • Blitz9 Blitz +9 vs standard

    Some games also: converter (45%)

    The standard build makes here, this one skips: 2 converter

    By 9:30 in all: 4 mex · 22 wind · 1 tidal · 4 converter · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 39 steps
    1. Con turret
    2. BlitzBlitz
    3. Converter
    4. BlitzBlitz ×4
    5. Wind
    6. BlitzBlitz
    7. Wind
    8. BlitzBlitz
    9. Wind
    10. BlitzBlitz
    11. Wind
    12. BlitzBlitz
    13. Wind
    14. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    15. Wind
    16. BlitzBlitz
    17. Wind ×2
    18. BlitzBlitz
    19. Wind ×19
    20. Converter
    21. Wind
    22. Converter ×2
    23. Wind
    24. Converter
    25. Con turret
    26. Converter ×6
    27. Wind
    28. Converter
    29. Wind ×2
    30. Converter
    31. Wind ×3
    32. Con turret
    33. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:57 · typical 9:53
    34. Wind ×3
    35. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    36. Wind ×4
    37. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    38. Wind ×3
    39. Bot LabBot Labdone 10:49 · typical 9:50
  3. 3

    Bot Lab to 15:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine23Wind
    • Energy Converter4Converter+3 vs standard
    Builders
    • Construction Turret3 Con turret

    Some games also: blitz (43%) · tick (34%) · Vehicle Plant (30%)

    The standard build makes here, this one skips: 6 tick

    By 15:00 in all: 4 mex · 46 wind · 1 tidal · 10 converter · 1 energy storage · 5 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 48 steps
    1. PawnPawn ×2
    2. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    3. PawnPawn ×23
    4. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 12:00
    5. PawnPawn ×3
    6. LazarusLazarus ×2
    7. StoutStout
    8. LazarusLazarus
    9. StoutStout
    10. LazarusLazarus
    11. StoutStout
    12. LazarusLazarus
    13. PawnPawn
    14. TickTick ×2
    15. StoutStout
    16. TickTick ×4
    17. StoutStout
    18. TickTick ×4
    19. StoutStout
    20. TickTick ×3
    21. StoutStout
    22. TickTick ×5
    23. StoutStout
    24. TickTick ×4
    25. StoutStout
    26. TickTick ×4
    27. StoutStout
    28. TickTick ×4
    29. StoutStout
    30. TickTick ×4
    31. StoutStout
    32. TickTick ×5
    33. StoutStout
    34. TickTick ×4
    35. StoutStout
    36. TickTick ×5
    37. StoutStout
    38. TickTick ×5
    39. StoutStout
    40. TickTick ×4
    41. StoutStout
    42. TickTick ×4
    43. StoutStout
    44. TickTick ×5
    45. StoutStout
    46. TickTick ×6
    47. StoutStout
    48. TickTick ×3

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Xad's (38 OS, 23/08/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Tidal Generator8 Tidal to Suicide front or Frontfirst at 0:13 · in 79% of games

You get

  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 8:12 · in 83% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build against the role’s standard build, running totals by minute

  • This build
  • Standard pond

Metal produced

010k20k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Enemy metal destroyed

02k4k6k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

02k4k6k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

53 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildMetal produced: Standard pondEnemy metal destroyed: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: Standard pondOwn metal lost: This buildOwn metal lost: Standard pond
1:001151150000
2:002842730000
3:008448170000
4:00152315100000
5:00223622310000
6:00301429850000
7:00405038416764804400
8:004973474211881276990148
9:0058845693152920251320379
10:0070716872229228651913720
11:00868983342678331721541188
12:0010685102902858368424911616
13:0012622125933435426234551966
14:0014499149143829478040972454
15:0017552174564439532448933030
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Won clearly more often than the standard build even though it destroyed less enemy metal and lost more of its own.

  • + Team win rate well above standard (63% vs 48%)
  • + Metal produced by 15:00 slightly ahead (17640 vs 17389)
  • − Own metal lost by 10:00 much higher (1837 vs 756)
  • − Enemy metal destroyed by 15:00 behind standard (4230 vs 5316)
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

Xad

37.7 OS · 23/08/2026

Open source match ↗

2 received units · includes a constructor
134 metal received · 34411 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Vehicle Plant3:54Middle 50%: 3:29–5:21 · n=52
Bot Lab9:50Middle 50%: 3:12–12:00 · n=30
Advanced Metal Extractor9:53Middle 50%: 9:11–10:44 · n=44

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