Sharpshooter buy
Cortex Pond build order · Supreme Isthmus
Pond buys Sharpshooters from Tech from around 5:09, paying heavily in metal and energy, sending them to fight in the middle as an early skirmish push while keeping its own economy going.
#push #team support · 106 distinct matches · 39 players · 15% of Cortex Pond games · team won 46% of 107 · Recently observed
Sniper bot from Tech arrives 5:09 · 12% of role by thenTech makes it and hands it over.
Paid for by sending allies about 710 metal and 17,000 energy by 5:00; standard pond sends 110 metal and 9,450 energy.
Where those units first fight, in 107 games with kill data: in the middle 87%, on their own side 13%.
Those units destroy a typical 2,511 metal of enemy units by 15:00.
Then transitions into grunt (17% of army), tick (11% of army), rascal (10% of army).
Key timing: Sharpshooter handed over by 5:07
- Open tidals, mex and heavy wind/converter eco instead of a lab.
- Send Tech metal and energy to pay for the sniper buy.
- Take Sharpshooter 'sniper bot' units handed over by Tech.
- Fly snipers to the middle to support and snipe for front.
- Add an Advanced Metal Extractor as the eco transition.
Phase by phase
TYPICAL OF ITS 106 GAMES · AGAINST STANDARD PONDFollow the example game's first 6:09 step by step: what to build now, what comes next, and where it goes. At 1× it keeps pace with your own game.
- 1
Up to 5:00
Economy
4Mex
8Tidalfor allies
8Wind- 2Tidal
1Energy storage
Some games also: converter (37%)
By 5:00 in all: 4 mex · 8 wind · 2 tidal · 1 energy storage
The example game in this phase · 13 steps
- Tidal ×8for Suicide front
- Mex ×4
- Wind ×4
Bot Labdone 3:00
Con bot- Wind ×2
- Con bot
- Wind ×2
Graverobber- Wind ×2
- Graverobber
- Wind ×6
- Eat Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
- 2
5:00 to 10:00
Economy- 6Wind−11 vs standard
Some games also: wind (40%) · converter (39%) · Guard (36%) · con turret (36%)
The standard build makes here, this one skips: 4 converter
By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 20 wind · 2 tidal · 2 converter (standard 6) · 1 energy storage
The example game in this phase · 7 steps
- Energy storage
- Wind ×36
T2 mexdone 9:39 · typical 10:06- Wind ×8
- T2 mex
- Wind ×4
- T2 mex
Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is DouglasBacon's (31 OS, 01/09/2026); pick another.
Team trades
IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMESYou hand over
- 8 Tidal to Suicide front or Frontfirst at 0:16 · in 97% of games
You get
1 Con bot from Geofirst at 2:26 · in 39% of games
1 Light transport from Air or Techfirst at 5:08 · in 36% of games- 2 Sniper bot from Techfirst at 5:09 · in 100% of games
1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 8:30 · in 97% 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
metal
Enemy metal destroyed
metal
Own metal lost
metal
Metal sent to allies
metal
Energy sent to allies
metal
107 games.
Show as table
| By | Metal produced: This build | Metal produced: Standard pond | Enemy metal destroyed: This build | Enemy metal destroyed: Standard pond | Own metal lost: This build | Own metal lost: Standard pond | Metal sent to allies: This build | Metal sent to allies: Standard pond | Energy sent to allies: This build | Energy sent to allies: Standard pond |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 | 115 | 115 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464 | 988 |
| 2:00 | 267 | 260 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3201 | 2438 |
| 3:00 | 799 | 752 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5950 | 4666 |
| 4:00 | 1472 | 1414 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 243 | 0 | 8988 | 6481 |
| 5:00 | 2194 | 2142 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 712 | 111 | 16777 | 9436 |
| 6:00 | 2900 | 2951 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1035 | 389 | 27713 | 11987 |
| 7:00 | 3702 | 3839 | 370 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1229 | 436 | 35183 | 14105 |
| 8:00 | 4493 | 4913 | 1160 | 51 | 140 | 73 | 1279 | 448 | 40328 | 16905 |
| 9:00 | 5376 | 6340 | 1855 | 185 | 470 | 172 | 1328 | 452 | 45330 | 19465 |
| 10:00 | 6414 | 7751 | 2560 | 321 | 1021 | 513 | 1388 | 461 | 47180 | 22262 |
| 11:00 | 7829 | 9899 | 3233 | 740 | 1386 | 796 | 1422 | 468 | 54864 | 24464 |
| 12:00 | 9863 | 12351 | 3612 | 1142 | 1892 | 1054 | 1494 | 482 | 60558 | 26862 |
| 13:00 | 11959 | 14910 | 3998 | 1575 | 2088 | 1637 | 1530 | 482 | 67750 | 30092 |
| 14:00 | 14098 | 17209 | 4575 | 1837 | 2628 | 2073 | 1554 | 507 | 69074 | 35003 |
| 15:00 | 16120 | 19934 | 5104 | 2623 | 3074 | 2966 | 1677 | 531 | 69269 | 40760 |
Won more often than the standard build, trading lower metal production for notably higher enemy metal destroyed.
- + Destroyed 3035 enemy metal by 10:00, well above standard's 1229.
- + Hercules transports arrive by 4:55 in 46% of games vs 15% role norm.
- − Metal produced fell behind at every checkpoint, 16992 vs 19066 by 15:00.
- − Own metal lost climbed to 1354 by 10:00 vs 755 standard.
DouglasBacon
31.3 OS · 01/09/2026
Open source match ↗3 received units · includes a constructor
122 metal received · 7167 energy received
Typical milestones
Played most by
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