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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 · 482 distinct matches · 125 players · 26% of Armada Pond games · team won 52% of 522 · Recently observed

THE CATCH, AND WHAT COMES WITH IT
  • SharpshooterSniper bot from Tech arrives 5:17 · 21% of role by thenTech makes it and hands it over.
  • HerculesLight transport from an ally in 47%17% of all Pond games by then

Paid for by sending allies about 660 metal and 17,000 energy by 5:00; standard pond sends 0 metal and 9,000 energy.

Where those units first fight, in 514 games with kill data: in the middle 92%, on their own side 8%.

Those units destroy a typical 3,429 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 482 GAMES · AGAINST STANDARD POND
  1. 1
  2. 2
PLAY THE OPENING

Follow the example game's first 6:18 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 · 6 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Wind ×3
    3. Mex ×3
    4. Wind ×2
    5. Mex
    6. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:07 · 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 · 31 wind · 2 tidal · 4 converter (standard 9) · 2 energy storage · 2 con turret

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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is duoinvasion's (31 OS, 06/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Tidal Generator8 Tidal to Suicide front or Frontfirst at 0:10 · in 92% of games

You get

  • Hercules1 Light transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:58 · in 47% of games
  • Sharpshooter2 Sniper bot from Techfirst at 5:18 · 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

522 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
1:0011511500000013081282
2:0026626800000029062758
3:0078079900000048274408
4:0014661474000098070456114
5:002182218400006642166468986
6:0029042996000010562572888412610
7:0036963903423210012454303653615602
8:004546494010531708512613104584186319050
9:0053806217188437839833613764674699121283
10:0063897711273260076555313954685148022816
11:00758096783265807117584214165115338126154
12:00930912076376511681584128114365145757627659
13:001138514615426415401969187414615826058930345
14:001370817522461921032416253914866306586531352
15:001607020248511725673017325815656866896032676
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

duoinvasion

30.7 OS · 06/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
506 metal received · 44893 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=459
Advanced Metal Extractor10:14Middle 50%: 9:23–11:01 · n=473

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