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Sharpshooter buy

Armada Pond build order · Supreme Isthmus

Pond pays Tech heavily so Tech builds and hands over Sharpshooter bots from 5:17, feeding them to the front before its own tech.

#team support · 475 distinct matches · 125 players · 26% of Armada Pond games · team won 52% of 515 · Recently observed

THE CATCH, AND WHAT COMES WITH IT
  • SharpshooterSniper bot from Tech arrives 5:17 · 22% of role by thenTech makes it and hands it over.
  • HerculesLight transport from an ally in 48%17% of all Pond games by then

Paid for by sending allies about 670 metal and 17,000 energy by 5:00; standard pond sends 0 metal and 9,000 energy.

Where those units first fight, in 507 games with kill data: in the middle 92%, on their own side 8%.

Those units destroy a typical 3,395 metal of enemy units by 15:00.

Then transitions into tick (34% of army), blitz (12% of army), pawn (12% of army).

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Sharpshooter delivered by 5:13

  1. Open tidals and wind as normal, then send metal and energy to Tech early.
  2. Get a light transport from an ally to ferry the bought units.
  3. Have Tech's lab hand over Sharpshooter bots bought with your payments.
  4. Land Sharpshooter bots at the middle to fight well ahead of the usual first kill time.
  5. Fall back into normal Tick and Blitz play and keep boosting front.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 475 GAMES · AGAINST STANDARD POND
  1. 1
  2. 2
PLAY THE OPENING

Follow the example game's first 6:17 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
    • Wind Turbine14Wind
    • Tidal Generator8Tidalfor allies
    • Tidal Generator2Tidal
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 4 mex, 15 wind, 2 tidaldone ~6:12, middle half 3:29–7:27

    Some games also: converter (36%) · eat Bot Lab (41%)

    The standard build makes here, this one skips: 2 converter · 2 con bot

    By 5:40 in all: 4 mex · 14 wind · 2 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 7 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Front
    2. Tidal ×4
    3. Mex ×3
    4. Energy storage
    5. Mex
    6. Energy storage
    7. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:44 · typical 6:12
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine11Wind−15 vs standard
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret
    • Construction Bot2 Con bot +2 vs standard
    Army
    • Tick8 Tick +8 vs standard

    Some games also: converter (48%) · Lazarus (37%)

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

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 30 wind · 2 tidal · 4 converter (standard 9) · 2 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 167 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot ×4
    2. LazarusLazarus
    3. Con turret
    4. Bot LabEat Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
    5. Con turret
    6. Wind ×6
    7. Converter ×2
    8. Wind
    9. Converter
    10. Wind
    11. Converter
    12. Wind
    13. Converter
    14. Wind
    15. Converter ×2
    16. Wind ×2
    17. Converter ×3
    18. Wind ×2
    19. Converter
    20. Wind ×3
    21. Converter ×2
    22. Wind
    23. Converter
    24. Wind ×3
    25. Converter ×2
    26. Wind
    27. Converter
    28. Wind
    29. Converter
    30. Wind ×2for Geo
    31. Converter
    32. Wind
    33. Windfor Geo
    34. Converter
    35. Wind ×2for Geo
    36. Converter
    37. Wind
    38. Converter
    39. Windfor Geo
    40. Wind
    41. Converter
    42. Bot LabBot Labdone 8:25
    43. Windfor Geo
    44. Converter
    45. PawnPawn
    46. Windfor Geo
    47. Converter
    48. PawnPawn
    49. Windfor Geo
    50. PawnPawn
    51. Windfor Geo
    52. PawnPawn
    53. Windfor Geo
    54. Converter
    55. PawnPawn
    56. Windfor Geo
    57. PawnPawn
    58. Converter
    59. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    60. Wind
    61. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    62. PawnPawn
    63. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    64. Wind
    65. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    66. PawnPawn
    67. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    68. Wind
    69. PawnPawn
    70. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    71. Wind
    72. PawnPawn
    73. Converter
    74. Construction BotCon bot
    75. Wind
    76. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    77. Wind
    78. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    79. Converter
    80. TickTick
    81. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    82. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    83. TickTick
    84. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    85. Con turret
    86. TickTick
    87. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    88. TickTick
    89. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    90. TickTick
    91. Con turret
    92. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    93. TickTick
    94. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    95. TickTick
    96. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    97. TickTick ×2
    98. Wind
    99. TickTick
    100. Converter
    101. TickTick ×2
    102. Wind
    103. TickTick ×3
    104. Wind
    105. TickTick
    106. NettleNettle
    107. TickTick ×2
    108. Wind
    109. TickTick ×3
    110. Wind
    111. TickTick ×2
    112. NettleNettle
    113. TickTick ×2
    114. Wind
    115. TickTick ×3
    116. Wind
    117. NettleNettle
    118. TickTick ×2
    119. Wind
    120. TickTick ×3
    121. LazarusLazarus
    122. Wind
    123. LazarusLazarus
    124. Wind
    125. LazarusLazarus
    126. TickTick ×2
    127. PawnPawn
    128. Wind
    129. PawnPawn ×2
    130. Wind
    131. PawnPawn
    132. NettleNettle
    133. PawnPawn
    134. Wind
    135. PawnPawn
    136. Converter
    137. PawnPawn
    138. Wind
    139. PawnPawn ×2
    140. Wind
    141. PawnPawn ×2
    142. Wind
    143. PawnPawn ×2
    144. Wind
    145. PawnPawn ×3
    146. Wind
    147. PawnPawn ×2
    148. Wind
    149. Construction BotCon bot
    150. Wind
    151. PawnPawn
    152. NettleNettle
    153. PawnPawn
    154. Wind
    155. PawnPawn ×2
    156. Wind
    157. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 14:44 · typical 10:15
    158. PawnPawn
    159. Wind
    160. PawnPawn
    161. Wind
    162. Bot LabEat Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
    163. Wind ×3
    164. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    165. Wind
    166. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    167. Converter

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [BS]Nampukk's (31 OS, 04/10/2026); 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 92% of games

You get

  • Hercules1 Light transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:58 · in 48% of games
  • Sharpshooter2 Sniper bot from Techfirst at 5:17 · in 100% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 8:34 · in 95% 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

Metal sent to allies

01k2k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Energy sent to allies

025k50k75k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

515 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
1:0011511500000013101282
2:0026626800000029182781
3:0077879900000048774436
4:0014651473000095070596138
5:002181218500006721167158989
6:0029032995000010552322895412657
7:0036883910430210012464373654415669
8:004545494810901708611713104634180919216
9:0053746223190337940531613774684700821289
10:0063717705273361177155213964905151823110
11:00757496453260842118085514195185341626170
12:00930512052375711691578128914365245790927931
13:001138414538426215531967187614666266068530525
14:001370217427461821342415253514926656602231558
15:001604120188511625993019324915787086900232681
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Won more often than the standard build and destroyed far more enemy metal by 15:00 despite producing less economy.

  • + Destroyed 5421 enemy metal by 15:00 vs 2962 standard.
  • + Won more often than the standard build (54% vs 46%).
  • − Metal production trails standard by 15:00 (16535 vs 20971).
  • − Own losses run higher at 10:00 (850 vs 440) from the early fights.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

[BS]Nampukk

30.9 OS · 04/10/2026

Open source match ↗

3 received units · includes a constructor
171 metal received · 49200 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab6:12Middle 50%: 3:29–7:27 · n=454
Advanced Metal Extractor10:15Middle 50%: 9:23–11:00 · n=466

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