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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 · 39 steps
    1. Tidal ×10for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Mex ×3
    4. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    5. Mex
    6. Wind ×3
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Converter
    9. Wind ×3
    10. Converter
    11. Wind ×2
    12. Con turret
    13. Wind
    14. Converter
    15. Wind
    16. Converter
    17. Wind
    18. Con turret
    19. Wind ×2
    20. Converter
    21. Wind
    22. Energy storage
    23. Wind
    24. Converter
    25. Wind ×4
    26. Converter
    27. Wind ×4
    28. Converter
    29. Wind
    30. Hovercraft PlatformHovercraft Platformdone 6:55 · typical 3:53
    31. Wind
    32. Converter
    33. Wind ×3
    34. Converter
    35. Wind
    36. CenturionCenturion
    37. Converter
    38. Wind
    39. SeekerSeekerdone 7:04
  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 · 1 step
    1. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:02 · 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 · 83 steps
    1. Wind ×2
    2. SeekerSeeker
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Wind ×2
    5. SeekerSeeker
    6. Wind
    7. SeekerSeeker
    8. Wind
    9. Converter
    10. SeekerSeeker
    11. Wind
    12. SeekerSeeker
    13. Wind ×2
    14. SeekerSeeker
    15. Converter
    16. SeekerSeeker
    17. Converter
    18. Wind
    19. SeekerSeeker
    20. Converter
    21. Wind
    22. SeekerSeeker
    23. Wind
    24. SeekerSeeker
    25. MaceMacefor Suicide front
    26. Converter
    27. Wind
    28. MaceMace ×2for Suicide front
    29. Wind
    30. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    31. Converter
    32. RocketeerRocketeerfor Suicide front
    33. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:53 · typical 9:19
    34. Wind
    35. MaceMacefor Suicide front
    36. PossumPossum ×2for Suicide front
    37. Wind
    38. RocketeerRocketeerfor Suicide front
    39. Converter
    40. PossumPossumfor Suicide front
    41. MaceMace
    42. PossumPossum
    43. Wind
    44. SentrySentry
    45. RocketeerRocketeer
    46. Converter
    47. Wind
    48. SentrySentry
    49. Converter
    50. Wind
    51. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    52. Converter
    53. Wind
    54. Converter
    55. Wind
    56. Con turret
    57. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    58. Con turret
    59. Wind
    60. Converter ×2
    61. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    62. Con turret ×2
    63. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labnot finished by 15:00
    64. Advanced Bot LabEat Advanced Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
    65. SeekerSeeker ×17
    66. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 13:39
    67. SeekerSeeker ×2
    68. Converter
    69. SeekerSeeker
    70. Converter
    71. SeekerSeeker
    72. Fusion ReactorFusion
    73. Converter
    74. SeekerSeeker
    75. Converter
    76. SeekerSeeker
    77. Converter ×2
    78. SeekerSeeker
    79. Converter
    80. SeekerSeeker
    81. Converter
    82. SeekerSeeker
    83. Converter

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is CommanderXeo's (31 OS, 07/09/2026); 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
5:00223121850000
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

CommanderXeo

30.5 OS · 07/09/2026

Open source match ↗

1 received units · includes a constructor
526 metal received · 72983 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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