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Blitz raid

Armada Pond build order · Supreme Isthmus

Pond skips its usual Bot Lab economy focus for an early Vehicle Plant, pushing Blitz tanks forward from 4:08 to raid and fight in the enemy base.

Usually pumps units (64%)

#raid #rush · 90 distinct matches · 47 players · 5% of Armada Pond games · team won 62% of 91 · Recently observed

THE CATCH, AND WHAT COMES WITH IT
  • BlitzT1 vehicle raid from 4:08 · 5% of role by thenFrom the Vehicle Plant. Only 5% of Pond games have it by then; others who build it get it around 8:23
  • Vehicle PlantVehicle Plant in 99%9% of all Pond games by then
  • BlitzBlitz in 66%5% of all Pond games by then

Started with Blitz (68%), Pincer (26%), Rover (5%).

Where those units first fight, in 91 games with kill data: in the middle 74%, on their own side 15%, in the enemy base 11%.

Those units destroy a typical 1,709 metal of enemy units by 15:00.

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Vehicle Plant by 3:16, Blitz raid by 4:04

  1. Open wind and mex as normal, skip Bot Lab for now.
  2. Drop a Vehicle Plant early instead of the usual Bot Lab-first order.
  3. Send first Blitz tanks raiding straight into the enemy base.
  4. Reclaim the Vehicle Plant once raid value is spent.
  5. Pivot to Advanced Metal Extractor and Bot Lab for normal army.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 90 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 Vehicle Plant

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Tidal Generator8Tidalfor allies
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    • Tidal Generator1Tidal
    Order
    1. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plant after 4 mex, 4 wind, 1 tidaldone ~3:33, middle half 3:18–4:08

    Some games also: energy storage (49%)

    By 3:14 in all: 4 mex · 4 wind · 1 tidal

    The example game in this phase · 7 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×5
    5. Energy storage
    6. Wind ×2
    7. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 5:03 · typical 3:33
  2. 2

    Vehicle Plant to T1 vehicle raid

    Order
    1. BlitzT1 vehicle raid after 4 mex, 6 wind, 1 tidal
    Builders
    • Construction Vehicle1 Con vehicle

    Some games also: wind (38%)

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

    By 4:08 in all: 4 mex · 6 wind · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 2 steps
    1. Construction VehicleCon vehicle ×3
    2. BlitzBlitzdone 6:02
  3. 3

    T1 vehicle raid to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine20Wind−12 vs standard
    • Energy Converter4Converter−4 vs standard
    Order
    1. Vehicle PlantEat Vehicle Plant in 56% of games
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret
    • Construction Vehicle1 Con vehicle
    Army
    • Blitz14 Blitz +14 vs standard

    The standard build makes here, this one skips: 2 con bot

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 26 wind (standard 38) · 1 tidal · 6 converter (standard 9) · 1 energy storage · 1 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 73 steps
    1. BlitzBlitz ×3
    2. Con turret
    3. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    4. BeaverBeaver
    5. Wind ×2
    6. Con turret
    7. Wind
    8. Energy storage
    9. Wind ×7
    10. Converter
    11. Wind
    12. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    13. Wind
    14. Converter
    15. Wind
    16. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 7:53
    17. Converter ×2
    18. Wind
    19. OspreyHeavy transport
    20. Converter
    21. Vehicle PlantEat Vehicle Plantreclaimed for its metal
    22. Wind
    23. Converter
    24. Wind
    25. Con turret
    26. Wind
    27. Aircraft PlantEat Aircraft Plantreclaimed for its metal
    28. Wind
    29. Con turret
    30. Wind ×6
    31. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 9:11
    32. Naval Construction Turret
    33. Wind ×2
    34. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    35. StorkLight transport ×2for Suicide front
    36. SentrySentry
    37. Wind ×2
    38. NettleNettle
    39. Wind ×2
    40. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:28 · typical 9:46
    41. Wind
    42. NettleNettle
    43. Naval Construction Turret
    44. Converter
    45. Aircraft PlantEat Aircraft Plantreclaimed for its metal
    46. Converter
    47. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    48. Converter
    49. Seaplane PlatformSeaplane Platformnot finished by 15:00
    50. Converter
    51. NettleNettle
    52. Seaplane PlatformEat Seaplane Platformreclaimed for its metal
    53. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    54. ShipyardShipyarddone 11:28
    55. DolphinDolphin ×5
    56. Tidal
    57. DolphinDolphin
    58. Tidal
    59. DolphinDolphin
    60. Tidal
    61. DolphinDolphin
    62. Tidal
    63. DolphinDolphin ×2
    64. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    65. CorsairDestroyer ×2done 12:55
    66. DolphinDolphin ×5
    67. CorsairDestroyer
    68. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    69. CorsairDestroyer
    70. CitadelAnti-nukenot finished by 15:00
    71. DolphinDolphin
    72. SkaterSkater ×3
    73. CorsairDestroyer

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is MischievousDragonGF's (42 OS, 04/10/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Tidal Generator8 Tidal to Suicide front or Frontfirst at 0:12 · in 85% of games

You get

  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 7:47 · in 79% 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

010k20k30k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Enemy metal destroyed

01k2k3k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

02k4k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

91 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
2:002752680000
3:008248000000
4:00149714740000
5:00217821840000
6:002894299650000
7:0037273916462215500
8:0047264952763170940120
9:005668622512413801320316
10:007004773914506111650553
11:008629967818258112090867
12:0010261120732008113224201296
13:0012109145462473154026401874
14:0014380174482766210335252493
15:0016874202012916257639713248
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Won more often than the standard build despite producing less metal, trading extra losses for far more enemy metal destroyed by 15:00.

  • + Destroys roughly 1679 metal by 15:00 via the raid.
  • + Far higher enemy metal destroyed at 10:00 (1517 vs 670).
  • − Own metal lost more than triples by 10:00 (1650 vs 431).
  • − Metal production falls behind standard by 15:00 (17959 vs 20997).
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

MischievousDragonGF

42.1 OS · 04/10/2026

Open source match ↗

3 received units · includes a constructor
629 metal received · 87150 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Vehicle Plant3:33Middle 50%: 3:18–4:08 · n=91
Advanced Metal Extractor9:46Middle 50%: 8:43–10:27 · n=74

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