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Gunslinger buy

Armada Pond build order · Supreme Isthmus

Pond pays Tech for Gunslinger skirmish bots delivered around 5:03 to reinforce front, but the example shows it coming after the front already collapsed.

#team support · 39 distinct matches · 21 players · 4% of Armada Pond games · team won 38% of 39 · Recently observed

THE CATCH, AND WHAT COMES WITH IT
  • GunslingerGunslinger from Tech arrives 5:03 · 3% of role by thenTech makes it and hands it over.

Paid for by sending allies about 630 metal and 13,000 energy by 5:00; standard pond sends 180 metal and 9,500 energy.

Where those units first fight, in 36 games with kill data: in the middle 86%, on their own side 14%.

Those units destroy a typical 1,480 metal of enemy units by 15:00.

Then transitions into tick (23% of army), centurion (12% of army), pawn (11% of army).

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 39 GAMES · AGAINST STANDARD POND
  1. 1
  2. 2
PLAY THE OPENING

Follow the example game's first 6:03 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 Turbine6Wind
    • Tidal Generator1Tidal
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 4 mex, 6 wind, 1 energy storagedone ~4:20, middle half 3:23–8:14

    Some games also: converter (44%)

    By 4:03 in all: 4 mex · 6 wind · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 6 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Mex ×3
    3. Wind ×2
    4. Mex
    5. Wind ×3
    6. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:10 · typical 4:20
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine16Wind−13 vs standard
    • Energy Converter1Converter−5 vs standard
    Builders
    • Construction Bot3 Con bot

    Some games also: con turret (49%) · Lazarus (44%) · tick (31%)

    The standard build makes here, this one skips: 2 con turret

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 36 wind · 1 tidal · 6 converter · 1 energy storage · 1 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 148 steps
    1. Construction BotCon botfor Tech
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. Wind ×3
    4. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    5. Wind ×2
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Wind ×3
    8. Mexfor Suicide front
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Wind ×2
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. Wind ×2
    13. Construction BotCon bot
    14. Wind ×5
    15. Construction BotCon bot
    16. Wind ×7
    17. Energy storage
    18. Wind ×6
    19. LazarusLazarus
    20. Converter
    21. Wind ×3
    22. Converter
    23. Wind ×2
    24. Converter
    25. Wind ×3
    26. Converter
    27. Wind
    28. Converter
    29. Wind ×3
    30. Converter
    31. Wind ×2
    32. Converter
    33. Wind ×2
    34. Converter
    35. Wind ×2
    36. Converter
    37. Wind ×2
    38. Converter
    39. Wind ×2
    40. Converter
    41. Wind
    42. Con turret
    43. Wind ×6
    44. Con turret
    45. Wind
    46. SentrySentry
    47. Wind ×2
    48. Bot LabBot Labdone 10:08
    49. Wind ×7
    50. Converter
    51. TickTick
    52. Wind ×2
    53. TickTick
    54. Converter
    55. Wind ×2
    56. Converter
    57. Wind ×2
    58. TickTick
    59. Converter
    60. TickTick
    61. Wind
    62. TickTick
    63. CenturionCenturion
    64. Wind
    65. Converter
    66. Wind
    67. CenturionCenturion
    68. Wind
    69. Converter
    70. Wind ×2
    71. CenturionCenturion
    72. Converter
    73. Wind ×3
    74. Converter
    75. CenturionCenturion
    76. Converter
    77. Wind ×2
    78. TickTick
    79. Wind
    80. TickTick
    81. Converter
    82. Wind
    83. TickTick ×2
    84. Wind
    85. TickTick
    86. Converter
    87. TickTick
    88. Wind
    89. TickTick
    90. Converter
    91. TickTick ×2
    92. Converter
    93. Wind
    94. TickTick
    95. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 13:05 · typical 9:20
    96. TickTick ×2
    97. Converter
    98. TickTick ×2
    99. Wind
    100. TickTick
    101. Converter
    102. TickTick
    103. Con turret
    104. TickTick ×2
    105. Wind
    106. TickTick
    107. Converter
    108. TickTick ×3
    109. Wind
    110. TickTick
    111. Converter
    112. TickTick ×2
    113. Wind
    114. TickTick ×2
    115. Con turret
    116. TickTick
    117. Converter
    118. TickTick ×3
    119. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    120. TickTick ×2
    121. Converter
    122. TickTick
    123. CenturionCenturion
    124. Converter
    125. CenturionCenturion
    126. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    127. Converter
    128. CenturionCenturion ×2
    129. Converter
    130. CenturionCenturion
    131. Con turret
    132. CenturionCenturion
    133. LazarusLazarusfor Suicide front
    134. Converter
    135. Wind
    136. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    137. LazarusLazarusfor Suicide front
    138. Converter
    139. LazarusLazarusfor Suicide front
    140. Wind
    141. CenturionCenturion
    142. Converter
    143. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labnot finished by 15:00
    144. CenturionCenturion
    145. Wind
    146. CenturionCenturion
    147. Converter
    148. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Cokeado's (40 OS, 14/08/2026); 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 100% of games

You get

  • Hercules1 Light transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:25 · in 33% of games
  • Gunslinger1 Gunslinger from Techfirst at 5:03 · in 100% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 7:39 · in 97% 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

02k4k6k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Metal sent to allies

01k2k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Energy sent to allies

025k50k75k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

39 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
1:0011511500000013211246
2:0026827800000028572552
3:0077582600000054683993
4:00144715060000361079786169
5:00218522340000627184134539516
6:00289230531300007333991766414127
7:0038313980684012909035222046716808
8:004929496214012783788610155912634721320
9:0061786223233555165027012766322742522939
10:00752676952584764106839215306373246926552
11:00955797133062940130468817257433487530310
12:001162412311318212861722107817257854581231879
13:001380014783458717832075160417948335504934636
14:001607517678466122764076224617949565771237771
15:001887320172531428454780303817949926003141211
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

Cokeado

40.4 OS · 14/08/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
1363 metal received · 64666 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab4:20Middle 50%: 3:23–8:14 · n=39
Advanced Metal Extractor9:20Middle 50%: 8:40–10:16 · n=36

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