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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 9,250 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 · 10 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Front
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Energy storage
    4. Tidal
    5. Mex ×4
    6. Wind ×6
    7. Energy storage
    8. Wind ×6
    9. Converter ×6
    10. Bot LabBot Labdone 6:00 · 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 · 122 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    2. GruntGrunt ×12
    3. Con turret
    4. GruntGrunt ×9
    5. Con turret
    6. GruntGrunt ×2
    7. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:00 · typical 10:05
    8. GruntGrunt ×7
    9. GraverobberGraverobber ×3
    10. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×2
    11. GruntGrunt ×15
    12. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 10:53
    13. Con turret
    14. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    15. GruntGrunt ×4
    16. Con turret
    17. GruntGrunt
    18. RascalRascal
    19. GruntGrunt
    20. Con turret
    21. RascalRascal ×3
    22. GruntGrunt
    23. RascalRascal ×4
    24. Con turret
    25. RascalRascal ×3
    26. GruntGrunt
    27. RascalRascal ×4
    28. GruntGrunt
    29. RascalRascal
    30. GruntGrunt
    31. RascalRascal ×2
    32. GruntGrunt
    33. RascalRascal ×2
    34. GruntGrunt
    35. RascalRascal
    36. GruntGrunt
    37. RascalRascal ×2
    38. GruntGrunt
    39. RascalRascal
    40. GruntGrunt
    41. RascalRascal
    42. GruntGrunt
    43. RascalRascal
    44. Con turret
    45. RascalRascal ×3
    46. GruntGrunt
    47. RascalRascal
    48. Con turret
    49. RascalRascal
    50. Bot LabBot Labdone 13:10
    51. RascalRascal ×2
    52. GruntGrunt
    53. Con turret
    54. RascalRascal ×2
    55. Con turret
    56. RascalRascal
    57. GruntGrunt
    58. RascalRascal ×2
    59. GruntGrunt
    60. RascalRascal ×2
    61. Bot LabEat Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
    62. RascalRascal
    63. Con turret
    64. RascalRascal
    65. Construction BotCon bot
    66. Con turret
    67. RascalRascal ×3
    68. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 13:32
    69. RascalRascal ×14
    70. BlitzBlitz
    71. RascalRascal
    72. BlitzBlitz
    73. RascalRascal
    74. BlitzBlitz
    75. RascalRascal ×2
    76. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 14:01
    77. BlitzBlitz
    78. RascalRascal ×2
    79. Con turret
    80. BlitzBlitz ×2
    81. RascalRascal
    82. Con turret
    83. RascalRascal
    84. Con turret
    85. BlitzBlitz
    86. RascalRascal
    87. BlitzBlitz
    88. RascalRascal
    89. BlitzBlitz
    90. RascalRascal
    91. BlitzBlitz ×2
    92. RascalRascal
    93. BlitzBlitz
    94. RascalRascal
    95. BlitzBlitz
    96. RascalRascal
    97. BlitzBlitz
    98. RascalRascal
    99. BlitzBlitz ×2
    100. RascalRascal
    101. BlitzBlitz
    102. RascalRascal
    103. BlitzBlitz ×2
    104. RascalRascal
    105. BlitzBlitz
    106. RascalRascal
    107. BlitzBlitz
    108. RascalRascal ×2
    109. BlitzBlitz ×2
    110. RascalRascal ×2
    111. BlitzBlitz
    112. RascalRascal
    113. BlitzBlitz
    114. RascalRascal
    115. BlitzBlitz
    116. RascalRascal
    117. BlitzBlitz
    118. RascalRascal
    119. BlitzBlitz ×2
    120. RascalRascal
    121. BlitzBlitz
    122. RascalRascal

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
2:0027325900000027692293
3:0081573700000047664418
4:00149514090000440073616407
5:002243213000001099113134579254
6:0030132949000014143961857611850
7:003856382921000015294392199613906
8:00465249051065541298616224502332817174
9:0054696290201422049218916804532561721198
10:0064217724286135094164016984532780622545
11:00755898783115714145383617094682877325778
12:00900412181358411401896103217364822959527224
13:001051814534452915712405166117594823026932595
14:001247016881490817973032199518395293240637744
15:001464519361539626323375296819055323431541136
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
456 metal received · 234635 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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