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Seeker hover raid

Armada Pond build order · Supreme Isthmus

Pond opens a Hovercraft Platform instead of Bot Lab, pushing Seeker hovercraft out from 4:05 to raid deep into the enemy base.

Usually pumps units (64%)

#raid #rush #amphibious · 33 distinct matches · 19 players · 2% of Armada Pond games · team won 58% of 33 · Recently observed

THE CATCH, AND WHAT COMES WITH IT
  • SeekerHover raid from 4:05 · 2% of role by thenFrom the Hovercraft Platform. Only 2% of Pond games have it by then; others who build it get it around 4:24
  • Hovercraft PlatformHovercraft Platform in 97%2% of all Pond games by then
  • SeekerSeeker in 58%1% of all Pond games by then

Where those units first fight, in 33 games with kill data: in the middle 73%, in the enemy base 15%, on their own side 12%.

Those units destroy a typical 1,748 metal of enemy units by 15:00.

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Hovercraft Platform by 3:18

  1. Open tidal-heavy eco instead of the usual lab-first economy.
  2. Rush the Hovercraft Platform straight off early tidals.
  3. Push Seeker hovercraft out to raid toward the enemy base.
  4. Reclaim the Hovercraft Platform once the raid runs its course.
  5. Pivot into Bot Lab and normal T2 constructor transition.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 33 GAMES · AGAINST STANDARD POND
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
PLAY THE OPENING

Follow the example game's first 6:00 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 Hover raid

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Tidal Generator8Tidalfor allies
    • Wind Turbine7Wind
    • Tidal Generator1Tidal
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Order
    1. Hovercraft PlatformHovercraft Platform after 4 mex, 6 wind, 1 energy storage
    2. SeekerHover raid after 4 mex, 7 wind, 1 energy storage

    Some games also: con hovercraft (48%)

    By 4:05 in all: 4 mex · 7 wind · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 26 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Wind
    4. Mex ×4
    5. Energy storage
    6. Wind ×4
    7. Converter
    8. Con turret
    9. Wind ×10
    10. Converter
    11. Wind ×2
    12. Converter
    13. Wind ×7
    14. Converter ×2
    15. Con turret
    16. Converter ×2
    17. Con turret
    18. Converter ×4
    19. Con turret
    20. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 6:56 · typical 9:19
    21. Con turret
    22. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×3
    23. Wind ×12
    24. Hovercraft PlatformHovercraft Platformdone 8:19 · typical 3:53
    25. Wind ×3
    26. SeekerSeekerdone 8:23
  2. 2

    Hover raid to Bot Lab

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine9Wind−12 vs standard
    Order
    1. Hovercraft PlatformEat Hovercraft Platform in 73% of games
    2. Bot LabBot Lab after 4 mex, 19 wind, 1 tidaldone ~8:04, middle half 6:25–11:06
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret
    Army
    • Seeker17 Seeker +17 vs standard

    Some games also: con hovercraft (42%) · converter (33%)

    The standard build makes here, this one skips: 6 converter

    By 8:14 in all: 4 mex · 19 wind (standard 27) · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage · 1 con turret

  3. 3

    Bot Lab to 10:00

    Some games also: wind (45%)

    The standard build makes here, this one skips: 10 wind

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 24 wind (standard 38) · 1 tidal · 1 converter (standard 9) · 1 energy storage · 1 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 37 steps
    1. SeekerSeeker
    2. Energy storage
    3. SeekerSeeker ×7
    4. Wind
    5. SeekerSeeker
    6. Wind
    7. SeekerSeeker ×2
    8. Wind
    9. SeekerSeeker
    10. Wind
    11. SeekerSeeker ×2
    12. PossumPossum ×2
    13. Wind
    14. SeekerSeeker
    15. Wind
    16. SeekerSeeker
    17. Wind
    18. SweeperSweeper
    19. Wind ×4
    20. SeekerSeeker ×2
    21. Wind
    22. SeekerSeeker
    23. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 10:47
    24. SeekerSeeker ×12
    25. T2 converter
    26. Fusion ReactorFusion
    27. Metal storage
    28. Con turret ×5
    29. Advanced Fusion ReactorAdvanced Fusion Reactornot finished by 15:00
    30. Con turret ×2
    31. SeekerSeeker
    32. Con turret ×2
    33. SeekerSeeker
    34. Con turret
    35. Construction HovercraftCon hovercraft
    36. Con turret
    37. SeekerSeeker ×3

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is hihimik's (35 OS, 12/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Tidal Generator8 Tidal to Suicide front or Frontfirst at 0:12 · in 70% of games

You get

  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 7:32 · in 82% 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

02k4k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

33 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 pond
1:001151150000
2:003022680000
3:008807990000
4:00155214730000
5:00223121840000
6:00294329911300850
7:0038023903670213400
8:00490449421144170680123
9:005699622317763791105320
10:006814772520826051420545
11:008375969526228091800834
12:0010031120752654116922101289
13:0011630146082791155324651876
14:0013813175242807207030102512
15:0015975202664091257231453249
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Team won the same share as the standard build, but this raid lost far more metal than it destroyed by 10:00.

  • + Destroys more enemy metal than standard by 10:00 (2166 vs 670)
  • + Hovercraft Platform live by 3:18 vs almost no one in role
  • − Own metal lost by 10:00 is 2348 vs 431 for standard
  • − Metal produced falls well behind standard by 15:00 (14103 vs 20997)
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

hihimik

34.5 OS · 12/09/2026

Open source match ↗

3 received units · includes a constructor
1806 metal received · 52285 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Hovercraft Platform3:53Middle 50%: 3:40–4:10 · n=32
Bot Lab8:04Middle 50%: 6:25–11:06 · n=17
Advanced Metal Extractor9:19Middle 50%: 8:28–11:15 · n=27

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