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Fatboy buy

Cortex Pond build order · Supreme Isthmus

Pond pays Tech heavily from before 5 minutes to get a Fatboy handed over around 5:12 and flown to front by heavy transport, fighting in the middle while Pond's own eco continues behind it.

#push #team support · 147 distinct matches · 42 players · 20% of Cortex Pond games · team won 53% of 147 · Recently observed

THE CATCH, AND WHAT COMES WITH IT
  • FatboyFatboy from Tech arrives 5:10 · 18% of role by thenTech makes it and hands it over.
  • HephaestusHeavy transport from an ally in 77%14% of all Pond games by then

Paid for by sending allies about 1,100 metal and 13,000 energy by 5:00; standard pond sends 110 metal and 10,000 energy.

Where those units first fight, in 141 games with kill data: in the middle 89%, on their own side 11%.

Those units destroy a typical 2,570 metal of enemy units by 15:00.

Then transitions into grunt (28% of army), tick (9% of army).

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Fatboy handed over by 5:10

  1. Drop tidals, mex and a bot lab while boosting wind for front.
  2. Send Tech heavy metal and energy to fund the Fatboy buy.
  3. Take the Heavy Plasma Bot 'Fatboy' handed over by Tech.
  4. Fly the Fatboy to the middle to push alongside front.
  5. Keep bot lab output of Grunt and Tick going as the real transition.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 147 GAMES · AGAINST STANDARD POND
  1. 1
  2. 2
PLAY THE OPENING

Follow the example game's first 6:10 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
    • Tidal Generator8Tidalfor allies
    • Wind Turbine8Wind
    • Tidal Generator1Tidal
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 4 mex, 9 wind, 4 converterdone ~5:58, middle half 3:38–6:56

    Some games also: converter (45%)

    By 5:36 in all: 4 mex · 8 wind · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 8 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×4
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×6
    5. Energy storage ×2
    6. Converter ×6
    7. Wind ×16
    8. Bot LabBot Labdone 7:09 · typical 5:58
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 10:00

    Some games also: wind (46%) · con turret (39%) · grunt (37%) · con bot (37%)

    The standard build makes here, this one skips: 14 wind · 2 converter

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 15 wind (standard 24) · 1 tidal · 3 converter (standard 6) · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 130 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot ×4
    2. Con turret
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Wind
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Wind
    7. GruntGrunt ×2
    8. Wind
    9. GruntGrunt
    10. Con turret
    11. GruntGrunt
    12. Wind
    13. GruntGrunt
    14. Wind
    15. GruntGrunt
    16. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:31 · typical 10:05
    17. Converter
    18. GruntGrunt ×2
    19. Wind
    20. GruntGrunt
    21. Con turret
    22. Wind ×3
    23. Con turret
    24. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    25. GruntGrunt
    26. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    27. GruntGrunt ×2
    28. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    29. GruntGrunt ×10
    30. Bot LabBot Labdone 12:22
    31. GruntGrunt
    32. Wind
    33. Construction BotCon bot
    34. GruntGrunt ×2
    35. Wind
    36. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 13:19
    37. Wind
    38. GruntGrunt
    39. Wind
    40. GruntGrunt
    41. Wind ×2
    42. GruntGrunt
    43. CitadelAnti-nukenot finished by 15:00
    44. Converter
    45. GruntGrunt
    46. Wind
    47. Construction BotCon bot
    48. GruntGrunt
    49. Wind ×2
    50. Converter
    51. GruntGrunt
    52. Con turret
    53. Wind ×2
    54. GruntGrunt
    55. Wind ×2
    56. Con turret
    57. GruntGrunt
    58. Wind
    59. Converter
    60. Con turret
    61. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 13:48
    62. GruntGrunt
    63. Wind
    64. GruntGrunt
    65. Wind ×2
    66. Con turret
    67. GruntGrunt
    68. Wind
    69. Converter
    70. Con turret
    71. RoverScout
    72. GruntGrunt
    73. Wind ×2
    74. RoverScout
    75. Wind
    76. GruntGrunt
    77. Con turret
    78. BlitzBlitz
    79. Wind ×2
    80. RoverScout
    81. Wind
    82. BlitzBlitz
    83. RoverScout
    84. Wind
    85. Converter
    86. Wind
    87. RoverScout
    88. BlitzBlitz
    89. Converter
    90. Wind ×2
    91. Bot LabEat Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
    92. Wind
    93. RoverScout
    94. BlitzBlitz
    95. Wind ×2
    96. RoverScout ×2
    97. BlitzBlitz
    98. Wind
    99. RoverScout
    100. BlitzBlitz
    101. Wind
    102. RoverScout
    103. Wind
    104. BlitzBlitz
    105. RoverScout
    106. Wind ×2
    107. BlitzBlitz
    108. RoverScout
    109. Converter
    110. RoverScout
    111. Converter
    112. BlitzBlitz
    113. LazarusLazarus
    114. RoverScout
    115. Wind
    116. BlitzBlitz
    117. RoverScout
    118. Wind ×3
    119. LazarusLazarus
    120. BlitzBlitz
    121. RoverScout
    122. Wind ×2
    123. LazarusLazarus
    124. RoverScout
    125. Wind
    126. BlitzBlitz
    127. Wind
    128. RoverScout
    129. Converter
    130. LazarusLazarus

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is FrontLiner69er's (32 OS, 29/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Tidal Generator8 Tidal to Suicide front or Frontfirst at 0:11 · in 99% of games

You get

  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:50 · in 77% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 5:10 · in 100% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 8:13 · in 94% 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

147 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
1:001151150000001089995
2:0027325900000027692365
3:0081573700000047664436
4:00149514090000440073616554
5:0022432130000010991131345710268
6:0030132949000014144031857611852
7:003856382921000015294452199614303
8:00465248741065541298616224532332817340
9:0054696257201422049218916804682561721198
10:0064217661286135094164016984682780622906
11:00755898593115766145383617094682877325778
12:00900412092358411961896107517364822959527224
13:001051814534452915782405166117594823026932595
14:001247016881490818143032199518395323240637744
15:001464519361539626323375296419055483431541136
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Won more often than the standard build and destroyed more enemy metal by 15:00 despite producing less metal itself.

  • + Destroyed 5282 enemy metal by 15:00 vs 3127 for the standard build.
  • + Fatboy and heavy transports line up: 79% of games get a Hephaestus by 4:39.
  • − Own metal lost by 15:00 rose to 3713 vs 3070 standard.
  • − Metal produced lagged badly at 10:00 and 15:00 (6422/14880 vs 8366/19066).
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

FrontLiner69er

32.2 OS · 29/09/2026

Open source match ↗

3 received units · includes a constructor
108 metal received · 53589 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:58Middle 50%: 3:38–6:56 · n=80
Advanced Metal Extractor10:05Middle 50%: 9:18–10:49 · n=138

Played most by

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