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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 Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×4
    5. Energy storage ×2
    6. Wind ×16
    7. Bot LabBot Labdone 5:59 · 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 · 163 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    2. TickTick ×3
    3. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:01 · typical 10:15
    4. TickTick ×4
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Wind ×2
    7. TickTick ×2
    8. Wind
    9. TickTick ×3
    10. Wind
    11. TickTick ×2
    12. Wind
    13. TickTick ×2
    14. Wind
    15. TickTick ×2
    16. Wind
    17. TickTick ×2
    18. Wind
    19. TickTick
    20. Wind
    21. TickTick ×2
    22. Wind
    23. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    24. TickTick ×2
    25. Wind
    26. TickTick ×2
    27. Wind
    28. TickTick ×2
    29. Wind
    30. TickTick ×2
    31. Wind
    32. TickTick ×2
    33. Wind
    34. TickTick ×2
    35. Wind
    36. TickTick
    37. Wind
    38. TickTick ×2
    39. Wind
    40. TickTick
    41. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    42. TickTick ×2
    43. Wind
    44. TickTick ×2
    45. Wind
    46. TickTick ×2
    47. Wind
    48. TickTick ×2
    49. Wind
    50. TickTick ×12
    51. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    52. TickTick ×5
    53. Con turret
    54. TickTick ×13
    55. Con turret
    56. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 11:46
    57. TickTick ×2
    58. Construction BotCon bot
    59. TickTick ×2
    60. BlitzBlitz
    61. TickTick
    62. BlitzBlitz
    63. TickTick
    64. BlitzBlitz
    65. TickTick
    66. Con turret
    67. BlitzBlitz
    68. TickTick ×2
    69. BlitzBlitz
    70. TickTick ×2
    71. Con turret
    72. BlitzBlitz
    73. TickTick ×2
    74. BlitzBlitz
    75. TickTick ×2
    76. BlitzBlitz
    77. TickTick
    78. BlitzBlitz
    79. TickTick
    80. BlitzBlitz
    81. TickTick
    82. BlitzBlitz ×2
    83. TickTick
    84. Fusion ReactorFusionnot finished by 15:00
    85. TickTick
    86. BlitzBlitz
    87. TickTick
    88. BlitzBlitz
    89. Converter
    90. TickTick
    91. BlitzBlitz
    92. TickTick
    93. Converter
    94. BlitzBlitz
    95. TickTick
    96. Converter
    97. TickTick
    98. BlitzBlitz
    99. TickTick
    100. Converter
    101. TickTick
    102. BlitzBlitz
    103. Converter
    104. TickTick
    105. BlitzBlitz
    106. TickTick
    107. Converter
    108. BlitzBlitz
    109. TickTick
    110. Converter
    111. TickTick
    112. BlitzBlitz
    113. TickTick
    114. Converter
    115. BlitzBlitz
    116. TickTick ×2
    117. BlitzBlitz
    118. TickTick
    119. BlitzBlitz
    120. TickTick
    121. BlitzBlitz
    122. TickTick
    123. BlitzBlitz
    124. TickTick
    125. BlitzBlitz
    126. TickTick ×2
    127. BlitzBlitz
    128. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 14:53
    129. TickTick
    130. BlitzBlitz
    131. TickTick
    132. BlitzBlitz
    133. TickTick
    134. BlitzBlitz
    135. TickTick
    136. BlitzBlitz
    137. TickTick
    138. BlitzBlitz
    139. TickTick ×2
    140. BlitzBlitz
    141. TickTick
    142. BlitzBlitz
    143. TickTick ×2
    144. BlitzBlitz
    145. TickTick
    146. BlitzBlitz
    147. TickTick
    148. BlitzBlitz
    149. TickTick ×2
    150. BlitzBlitz
    151. TickTick
    152. BlitzBlitz
    153. TickTick ×2
    154. BlitzBlitz
    155. TickTick ×2
    156. BlitzBlitz
    157. TickTick
    158. BlitzBlitz
    159. TickTick ×2
    160. BlitzBlitz
    161. TickTick ×2
    162. BlitzBlitz
    163. TickTick

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is BlackCat12's (30 OS, 07/08/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Tidal Generator8 Tidal to Suicide front or Frontfirst at 0:10 · 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

BlackCat12

30.2 OS · 07/08/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
385 metal received · 55594 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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