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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 · 8 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×4
    3. Converter ×2
    4. Mex ×3
    5. Energy storage
    6. Mex
    7. Hovercraft PlatformHovercraft Platformdone 4:02 · typical 3:53
    8. SeekerSeekerdone 4:11
  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 26) · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage · 1 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 24 steps
    1. SeekerSeeker ×3
    2. Wind
    3. SeekerSeeker
    4. Construction HovercraftCon hovercraft
    5. Wind ×4
    6. Construction HovercraftCon hovercraft
    7. Converter ×2
    8. Construction HovercraftCon hovercraft
    9. Converter ×2
    10. SeekerSeeker ×7
    11. Converter
    12. SeekerSeeker
    13. Tidal
    14. SeekerSeeker ×2
    15. Converter
    16. Construction HovercraftCon hovercraft
    17. Tidal
    18. Converter
    19. Wind
    20. Tidal ×2
    21. Wind
    22. Hovercraft PlatformEat Hovercraft Platformreclaimed for its metal
    23. Converter
    24. Bot LabBot Labdone 8:04 · typical 8:04
  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 (standard 3)

    The example game in this phase · 115 steps
    1. Tidal
    2. Wind
    3. Tidal
    4. Converter
    5. Wind
    6. Tidal ×2
    7. Wind
    8. Converter
    9. Tidal
    10. TickTick
    11. Wind
    12. LazarusLazarus
    13. Tidal
    14. Converter
    15. Tidal
    16. Wind
    17. TickTick ×2
    18. Tidal
    19. Con turret
    20. TickTick ×3
    21. NettleNettle
    22. TickTick
    23. FerretFerret
    24. LazarusLazarus
    25. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    26. PawnPawn ×5
    27. LazarusLazarus
    28. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 11:34 · typical 9:19
    29. LazarusLazarus
    30. Con turret
    31. PawnPawn
    32. Con turret
    33. PawnPawn
    34. Construction BotCon botfor Geo sea
    35. LazarusLazarus
    36. TickTick ×13
    37. Mexfor Geo sea
    38. TickTick ×6
    39. Mexfor Geo sea
    40. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    41. Construction BotCon bot
    42. Energy storage
    43. Construction BotCon bot
    44. Con turret
    45. TickTick
    46. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    47. TickTick ×8
    48. Construction BotCon bot
    49. Wind
    50. Construction BotCon bot
    51. Wind
    52. TickTick
    53. Wind
    54. TickTick
    55. Wind
    56. TickTick ×2
    57. Wind
    58. TickTick ×2
    59. Wind
    60. TickTick
    61. Wind
    62. TickTick ×2
    63. Wind
    64. TickTick ×2
    65. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    66. TickTick
    67. Wind
    68. TickTick ×4
    69. Wind
    70. TickTick ×2
    71. Wind
    72. TickTick ×2
    73. Wind
    74. TickTick
    75. Wind
    76. TickTick ×2
    77. Wind
    78. TickTick
    79. Wind
    80. TickTick
    81. Wind
    82. TickTick
    83. Tidal
    84. TickTick
    85. Wind
    86. TickTick ×2
    87. Wind
    88. TickTick
    89. Tidal
    90. TickTick
    91. Wind
    92. TickTick ×2
    93. Tidal
    94. Wind
    95. TickTick ×2
    96. NettleNettle
    97. TickTick ×2
    98. Wind
    99. Tidal
    100. TickTick ×2
    101. Wind
    102. TickTick ×2
    103. Tidal
    104. Wind
    105. TickTick ×2
    106. Wind
    107. NettleNettle
    108. Tidal
    109. Wind
    110. Tidal
    111. Wind
    112. TickTick ×2
    113. Tidal
    114. TickTick ×3
    115. Tidal ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is arcsiz's (35 OS, 16/08/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Tidal Generator8 Tidal to Suicide front or Frontfirst at 0:12 · 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
5:00223121850000
6:00294329951300850
7:0038023910670213400
8:00490449481144170680117
9:005699622317763791105316
10:006814770520826111420552
11:008375964526228421800855
12:0010031120522654116922101289
13:0011630145382791155324651876
14:0013813174272807213430102535
15:0015975201884091259931453249
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

arcsiz

34.6 OS · 16/08/2026

Open source match ↗

1 received units · includes a constructor
587 metal received · 36787 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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