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Fatboy buy

Cortex Pond build order · Supreme Isthmus

Pond pays Tech heavily from before 5 minutes to buy a Fatboy which Tech builds and hands over around 5:15, bringing it to the middle as an early push while still running its own eco.

#push #team support · 68 distinct matches · 20 players · 20% of Cortex Pond games · team won 46% of 68 · Recently observed

THE CATCH, AND WHAT COMES WITH IT
  • FatboyFatboy from Tech arrives 5:15 · 19% of role by thenTech makes it and hands it over.
  • HephaestusHeavy transport from an ally in 79%16% of all Pond games by then

Paid for by sending allies about 1,200 metal and 12,000 energy by 5:00; standard pond sends 450 metal and 13,000 energy.

Where those units first fight, in 64 games with kill data: in the middle 88%, on their own side 13%.

Those units destroy a typical 2,392 metal of enemy units by 15:00.

Then transitions into grunt (31% of army), tick (10% of army), incisor (9% of army).

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Fatboy by 5:15

  1. Open tidals plus mex and wind for your own standard Pond eco.
  2. Receive a heavy transport from an ally to help move it.
  3. Send Tech heavy metal and energy to fund the Fatboy buy.
  4. Take delivery of the Fatboy from Tech and send it to middle as a push.
  5. Get your lab going and keep boosting front through the T2 transition.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 68 GAMES · AGAINST STANDARD POND
  1. 1
  2. 2
PLAY THE OPENING

Follow the example game's first 6:15 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 Turbine9Wind
    • Tidal Generator8Tidalfor allies
    • Tidal Generator1Tidal
    • Energy Converter2Converter+2 vs standard
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 4 mex, 11 wind, 4 converterdone ~6:02, middle half 3:46–6:54

    By 5:38 in all: 4 mex · 9 wind · 1 tidal · 2 converter (standard 0) · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 38 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal
    3. Wind
    4. Mex ×4
    5. Wind ×5
    6. Energy storage
    7. Wind
    8. Windfor Beach sea
    9. Wind ×2
    10. Windfor Beach sea
    11. Converter ×4
    12. Wind
    13. Wind ×5for Beach sea
    14. Converter ×3
    15. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 6:21
    16. Construction VehicleCon vehicle ×4
    17. Wind ×3
    18. Con turret
    19. Windfor Beach sea
    20. Wind
    21. Windfor Beach sea
    22. Wind
    23. Wind ×2for Beach sea
    24. Wind
    25. Con turretfor Beach sea
    26. Wind ×2for Beach sea
    27. Wind
    28. Windfor Beach sea
    29. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:23 · typical 10:04
    30. BruteBrute
    31. Wind ×8
    32. Vehicle PlantEat Vehicle Plantreclaimed for its metal
    33. Wind ×5
    34. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    35. Wind ×12
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    37. Wind ×4
    38. Bot LabBot Labdone 10:31 · typical 6:02
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine1Wind−6 vs standard

    Some games also: con turret (47%) · con bot (43%) · grunt (43%) · converter (37%)

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

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 16 wind · 1 tidal · 4 converter · 1 energy storage · 1 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 115 steps
    1. Con turret
    2. Wind
    3. Con turret
    4. Wind ×2
    5. GruntGrunt ×2
    6. Con turretfor Beach sea
    7. GruntGrunt
    8. Wind
    9. GruntGrunt
    10. Wind
    11. GruntGrunt
    12. Wind
    13. GruntGrunt
    14. Wind
    15. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    16. Wind
    17. GruntGrunt
    18. Wind
    19. GruntGrunt
    20. Wind
    21. GruntGrunt ×2
    22. Wind
    23. Construction BotCon botfor Beach sea
    24. Wind
    25. Construction BotCon bot ×2for Beach sea
    26. Converter
    27. Con turret
    28. Converter
    29. Wind
    30. Con turret
    31. Wind
    32. Con turret
    33. Converter
    34. Con turret
    35. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 11:57
    36. Converter
    37. Wind
    38. Bot LabEat Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
    39. Con turret
    40. Wind
    41. HerculesLight transport
    42. Converter
    43. HerculesLight transport ×2
    44. Converter
    45. Wind
    46. Converter ×2
    47. Wind
    48. Converter ×2
    49. ShurikenShuriken ×2
    50. Wind ×2
    51. ShurikenShuriken
    52. Wind
    53. Converter
    54. ShurikenShuriken
    55. Wind
    56. ShurikenShuriken
    57. Converter
    58. Wind
    59. ShurikenShuriken
    60. Wind
    61. Converter
    62. ShurikenShuriken
    63. Converter
    64. ShurikenShuriken ×2
    65. Converter
    66. Wind ×2
    67. ShurikenShuriken
    68. Wind ×2
    69. Converter
    70. Wind ×2
    71. Converter
    72. Energy storage
    73. Converter
    74. Wind
    75. Advanced solar
    76. Wind ×3
    77. Con turret
    78. Advanced solar
    79. Wind ×2
    80. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Beach sea
    81. Wind ×4
    82. Con turret
    83. Wind ×2
    84. Advanced solar
    85. Wind
    86. FinchFinch
    87. Con turret
    88. Wind
    89. Advanced solar
    90. Wind
    91. FinchFinch
    92. Wind
    93. Con turret
    94. Wind
    95. FinchFinch
    96. Wind
    97. FinchFinch
    98. Wind
    99. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    100. Wind
    101. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    102. Wind ×2
    103. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    104. Wind
    105. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    106. Wind
    107. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    108. Wind ×2
    109. FinchFinch
    110. Wind
    111. FinchFinch
    112. Wind
    113. FinchFinch
    114. Wind ×7
    115. FinchFinch

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is MischievousDragonGF's (42 OS, 15/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Tidal Generator8 Tidal to Suicide front or Frontfirst at 0:09 · in 100% of games

You get

  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:40 · in 79% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 5:14 · in 100% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 8:16 · in 93% 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

02k4k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Metal sent to allies

01k2k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Energy sent to allies

020k40k60k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

68 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
1:0011511500000010371052
2:0027528500000023402848
3:0083382200000040174945
4:001522149400004554363618188
5:0022712257000011794481241613143
6:0030803137000014347301772117257
7:0039574016115007015539761980320608
8:00467548501071249161161168510272155228447
9:00550763231768555618511170410272371429716
10:0064528183256712401140859171010272371430120
11:00771697922974154616691231172810272561831305
12:009083120743424169722581405174910272753134728
13:0010539140323947188627781586175210272852442543
14:0012629163914381246332282530175610272976045040
15:0014880186524862301038583482180710273015349057
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Won slightly less than the standard build despite the Fatboy destroying a similar amount of metal by 15:00.

  • + Enemy metal destroyed at 10:00 is roughly double the standard build (2567 vs 1240).
  • + Early heavy transport arrives by 4:40 in 79% of games, far above the 16% role norm.
  • − Own metal production falls well behind standard by 10:00 (6452 vs 8183).
  • − Own losses by 15:00 run higher than standard (3858 vs 3482).
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

MischievousDragonGF

41.9 OS · 15/09/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
904 metal received · 31050 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab6:02Middle 50%: 3:46–6:54 · n=41
Advanced Metal Extractor10:04Middle 50%: 9:22–10:47 · n=64

Played most by

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