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Fatboy buy

Armada Pond build order · Supreme Isthmus

Pond sends Tech heavy metal and energy from very early (by 5:00) to buy a Fatboy for front well ahead of the role norm, fighting in the middle from around 6:12, before settling into normal Tick/Pawn production.

#team support #push · 300 distinct matches · 63 players · 28% of Armada Pond games · team won 46% of 321 · Recently observed

THE CATCH, AND WHAT COMES WITH IT
  • FatboyFatboy from Tech arrives 5:02 · 24% of role by thenTech makes it and hands it over.
  • HephaestusHeavy transport from an ally in 52%21% of all Pond games by then

Paid for by sending allies about 1,150 metal and 12,000 energy by 5:00; standard pond sends 100 metal and 9,250 energy.

Where those units first fight, in 306 games with kill data: in the middle 88%, on their own side 12%.

Those units destroy a typical 2,972 metal of enemy units by 15:00.

Then transitions into tick (28% of army), pawn (15% of army), Sentry (9% of army).

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Fatboy to front by 5:02

  1. Open tidals and mex, add wind as usual Pond eco.
  2. Grab a heavy transport from air to fly it forward.
  3. Send Tech heavy metal and energy to buy a Fatboy.
  4. Get Fatboy handed over from Tech's factory for front.
  5. Fight in middle with Fatboy, then return to normal Tick and Pawn lab output.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 300 GAMES · AGAINST STANDARD POND
  1. 1
  2. 2
PLAY THE OPENING

Follow the example game's first 6:02 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 Extractor4Mex
    • Wind Turbine10Wind
    • Tidal Generator8Tidalfor allies
    • Tidal Generator1Tidal
    • Energy Converter2Converter
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 4 mex, 11 wind, 2 converterdone ~5:49, middle half 4:53–7:24

    By 5:17 in all: 4 mex · 10 wind · 1 tidal · 2 converter · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 31 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind
    5. Energy storage
    6. Solar
    7. Wind ×4
    8. Converter ×2
    9. Con turret
    10. Converter ×2
    11. Wind ×9
    12. Converter ×2
    13. SentrySentry
    14. Converter ×4
    15. Con turret ×2
    16. Wind ×2
    17. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    18. Wind ×2
    19. Metal storage
    20. Con turret
    21. SentrySentry
    22. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:50 · typical 9:52
    23. Con turret
    24. Wind ×3
    25. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    26. Wind ×2
    27. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    28. Wind ×2
    29. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    30. Wind ×9
    31. Bot LabBot Labdone 10:22 · typical 5:49
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine8Wind−18 vs standard
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret
    • Construction Bot2 Con bot +2 vs standard
    Army
    • Tick1 Tick

    Some games also: Lazarus (50%) · Sentry (34%) · eat Bot Lab (39%)

    The standard build makes here, this one skips: 5 converter

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 22 wind (standard 37) · 1 tidal · 4 converter (standard 8) · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 117 steps
    1. Wind ×2
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. Wind
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. Wind ×2
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Wind ×2
    8. TickTick ×11
    9. Con turret
    10. TickTick ×5
    11. Con turret
    12. TickTick ×5
    13. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 12:23
    14. TickTick
    15. Con turret
    16. TickTick ×6
    17. Wind
    18. Bot LabEat Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
    19. Wind ×2
    20. T2 converter
    21. Wind ×2
    22. Bot LabBot Labdone 12:53
    23. Wind ×18
    24. TickTick ×2
    25. Wind
    26. TickTick
    27. Wind ×2
    28. TickTick ×3
    29. Wind
    30. Bot LabBot Labdone 13:20
    31. TickTick
    32. Wind ×2
    33. TickTick
    34. Construction BotCon bot
    35. Wind ×2
    36. Construction BotCon bot
    37. Wind
    38. TickTick ×2
    39. Wind
    40. PawnPawn
    41. CenturionCenturion
    42. TickTick
    43. Converter
    44. CenturionCenturion
    45. TickTick
    46. Wind
    47. TickTick
    48. CenturionCenturion
    49. TickTick
    50. Wind
    51. TickTick
    52. Converter
    53. Wind
    54. TickTick
    55. CenturionCenturion
    56. TickTick
    57. Converter
    58. CenturionCenturion
    59. TickTick
    60. Converter
    61. TickTick
    62. Converter
    63. TickTick
    64. CenturionCenturion
    65. TickTick
    66. Wind
    67. TickTick
    68. CenturionCenturion
    69. Converter
    70. TickTick
    71. Wind
    72. CenturionCenturion
    73. TickTick
    74. Converter
    75. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    76. TickTick
    77. Converter
    78. TickTick
    79. CenturionCenturion
    80. Converter
    81. TickTick
    82. CenturionCenturion
    83. TickTick
    84. Wind
    85. TickTick
    86. Wind
    87. TickTick
    88. CenturionCenturion
    89. Wind ×2
    90. TickTick
    91. Wind ×2
    92. CenturionCenturion
    93. Converter
    94. TickTick
    95. Wind
    96. AnemoneAnemone
    97. Wind
    98. TickTick
    99. CenturionCenturion
    100. Wind
    101. TickTick
    102. Wind ×2
    103. TickTick
    104. CenturionCenturion
    105. Wind ×2
    106. TickTick ×3
    107. Wind ×3
    108. TickTick ×2
    109. Wind
    110. TickTick
    111. Wind
    112. TickTick
    113. Wind
    114. TickTick
    115. Construction BotCon bot
    116. TickTick
    117. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is hihimik's (36 OS, 10/10/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Tidal Generator8 Tidal to Suicide front or Frontfirst at 0:10 · in 96% of games

You get

  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:44 · in 84% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 5:02 · in 100% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 8:14 · in 98% 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

02k4k6k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

02k4k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Metal sent to allies

01k2k3k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Energy sent to allies

020k40k60k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

321 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 pondMetal sent to allies: This buildMetal sent to allies: Standard pondEnergy sent to allies: This buildEnergy sent to allies: Standard pond
1:0011511500000012891261
2:0027627900000025472663
3:0083182800000036744129
4:00151815100000528064676114
5:00224622390000114498123209247
6:0030083050000013943181780213656
7:0038764006520021014924872093716640
8:004773498514603002008615805332346521270
9:0057266265237249452027016575732551422675
10:0069097872321971098844017476262725325652
11:00840498243793922156074618476392990027659
12:001026312512422113751950120118706673128230704
13:001260314871476318182432175819287493476632835
14:001487418196527924802956235819619033734935349
15:001745220971580629623629351920479094306737178
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Same win rate as the standard build but destroys far more enemy metal by 15:00 at the cost of much higher own metal production lost.

  • + Destroys 5806 enemy metal by 15:00 vs 2962 standard.
  • + Reclaims Bot Lab in 39% of games to recoup metal.
  • − Own metal lost roughly doubles by 10:00 (988 vs 440).
  • − Metal production falls behind standard by 15:00 (17452 vs 20971).
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

hihimik

35.5 OS · 10/10/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
35 metal received · 51053 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:49Middle 50%: 4:53–7:24 · n=288
Advanced Metal Extractor9:52Middle 50%: 9:07–10:34 · n=306

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