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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 9,450 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 Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Mex ×3
    4. Wind ×5
    5. Energy storage
    6. Mex
    7. Wind ×4
    8. Converter ×4
    9. Wind ×8
    10. Bot LabBot Labdone 6:05 · 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 · 195 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot ×6
    2. Wind ×2
    3. Con turret
    4. Wind ×2
    5. Converter
    6. Wind
    7. Con turret
    8. Wind
    9. Converter
    10. Wind
    11. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:19 · typical 10:05
    12. Wind ×2
    13. Bot LabEat Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
    14. Wind ×4
    15. Bot LabBot Labdone 8:34
    16. Wind
    17. TickTick
    18. Wind
    19. TickTick
    20. Wind
    21. TickTick
    22. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    23. TickTick
    24. Wind
    25. TickTick
    26. Wind
    27. TickTick
    28. Wind
    29. TickTick ×2
    30. Wind ×2
    31. TickTick ×2
    32. Wind
    33. TickTick
    34. Wind
    35. TickTick
    36. Wind
    37. TickTick ×2
    38. Wind
    39. TickTick
    40. Wind
    41. TickTick
    42. Wind
    43. TickTick
    44. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    45. Wind
    46. TickTick ×2
    47. Wind
    48. TickTick ×2
    49. Wind
    50. TickTick ×2
    51. Wind ×2
    52. TickTick ×2
    53. Wind
    54. TickTick
    55. Wind
    56. TickTick ×2
    57. Wind ×2
    58. TickTick ×3
    59. Wind ×2
    60. TickTick ×3
    61. Wind ×2
    62. TickTick ×3
    63. Wind ×2
    64. TickTick ×2
    65. Wind
    66. TickTick
    67. Wind
    68. TickTick ×2
    69. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    70. Wind
    71. TickTick
    72. Wind
    73. TickTick ×3
    74. Wind ×2
    75. TickTick
    76. Construction BotCon bot
    77. Wind ×2
    78. TickTick
    79. Wind ×2
    80. TickTick ×2
    81. Mexfor Geo sea
    82. TickTick
    83. Construction BotCon bot
    84. Wind ×2
    85. Construction BotCon bot
    86. Wind ×4
    87. Construction BotCon bot
    88. Mexfor Geo sea
    89. Wind ×4
    90. Construction BotCon bot
    91. GuardGuard
    92. Wind ×2
    93. Construction BotCon bot
    94. GuardGuard
    95. Wind ×2
    96. TickTick ×2
    97. Wind ×2
    98. TickTick ×3
    99. Wind
    100. TickTick
    101. Wind
    102. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 14:34
    103. GuardGuard
    104. TickTick ×2
    105. Wind
    106. TickTick
    107. Wind
    108. TickTick
    109. Con turret
    110. TickTick
    111. Converter
    112. Wind ×2
    113. TickTick
    114. GuardGuard
    115. TickTick ×2
    116. Wind ×2
    117. TickTick
    118. Converter
    119. TickTick ×2
    120. Wind ×2
    121. TickTick ×2
    122. GuardGuard
    123. TickTick
    124. Converter
    125. Wind ×2
    126. TickTick ×3
    127. Wind ×2
    128. TickTick ×2
    129. Converter
    130. Wind
    131. TickTick
    132. Wind
    133. Con turret
    134. TickTick ×3
    135. Wind ×2
    136. Converter
    137. TickTick ×2
    138. Con turret
    139. TickTick
    140. Wind ×2
    141. TickTick ×2
    142. Converter
    143. Wind
    144. TickTick
    145. Wind
    146. TickTick ×2
    147. Wind
    148. TickTick
    149. Wind
    150. Converter
    151. TickTick ×2
    152. Wind
    153. TickTick
    154. Wind
    155. TickTick
    156. Converter
    157. TickTick
    158. Wind
    159. TickTick
    160. Wind
    161. TickTick ×2
    162. Wind
    163. TickTick
    164. Wind
    165. Converter
    166. TickTick ×2
    167. Wind ×2
    168. TickTick ×2
    169. Converter
    170. TickTick
    171. Wind
    172. TickTick
    173. Wind
    174. TickTick ×2
    175. Wind ×2
    176. TickTick
    177. Converter
    178. TickTick
    179. Con turret
    180. TickTick
    181. Wind ×2
    182. TickTick
    183. T2 converter
    184. TickTick ×2
    185. Wind ×2
    186. TickTick
    187. Converter
    188. TickTick ×2
    189. Wind ×2
    190. TickTick
    191. Con turret
    192. TickTick
    193. Converter
    194. TickTick
    195. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [A7O]SuperTetra's (31 OS, 17/09/2026); 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
1:001151150000001089988
2:0027326000000027692438
3:0081575200000047664666
4:00149514140000440073616481
5:002243214200001099111134579436
6:0030132951000014143891857611987
7:003856383921000015294362199614105
8:00465249131065511297316224482332816905
9:0054696340201418549217216804522561719465
10:0064217751286132194151316984612780622262
11:00755898993115740145379617094682877324464
12:00900412351358411421896105417364822959526862
13:001051814910452915752405163717594823026930092
14:001247017209490818373032207318395073240635003
15:001464519934539626233375296619055313431540760
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

[A7O]SuperTetra

30.8 OS · 17/09/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
1104 metal received · 20361 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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