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Standard Pond play: fast Bot Lab and early boosting into Advanced Metal Extractor, sending Tick/Pawn/Blitz to front while tidal-boosting allies throughout.

#eco #team support · 486 distinct matches · 107 players · 59% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 553 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Bot Lab by 5:42

  1. Open tidal, then wind to start boosting front's economy.
  2. Take mex and keep boosting wind or tidal depending on front's needs.
  3. Get a Bot Lab up, start sending Tick and Pawn to front.
  4. Add Advanced Metal Extractor to scale up team's economy.
  5. Switch to tick spam if enemy reaches T2 front before you do.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 486 GAMES
  1. 1
  2. 2
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 Bot Lab

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Wind Turbine10Wind
    • Tidal Generator8Tidalfor allies
    • Tidal Generator1Tidal
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 4 mex, 10 wind, 1 energy storagedone ~5:36, middle half 3:31–7:00

    Some games also: converter (45%)

    By 5:05 in all: 4 mex · 10 wind · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 10 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Energy storage
    4. Mex ×4
    5. Wind ×6
    6. Energy storage
    7. Wind ×2
    8. Converter ×2
    9. Wind ×4
    10. Bot LabBot Labdone 5:39 · typical 5:36
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine16Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret
    • Construction Bot2 Con bot
    Army
    • Tick1 Tick

    Some games also: Lazarus (48%) · converter (45%)

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 31 wind · 1 tidal · 5 converter · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 175 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. TickTick
    3. Con turret
    4. TickTick ×3
    5. Con turret
    6. TickTick
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. TickTick ×2
    9. Converter
    10. TickTick ×2
    11. Converter
    12. TickTick ×2
    13. Wind
    14. Converter
    15. TickTick ×2
    16. Converter
    17. TickTick ×2
    18. Wind
    19. TickTick
    20. Converter
    21. Wind
    22. TickTick
    23. Wind
    24. TickTick
    25. Wind
    26. TickTick
    27. AnemoneAnemone
    28. Wind
    29. TickTick
    30. Wind
    31. TickTick ×2
    32. Converter
    33. Wind
    34. TickTick
    35. Wind
    36. TickTick
    37. Wind
    38. TickTick ×2
    39. Con turret
    40. TickTick ×2
    41. Wind
    42. TickTick ×5
    43. Wind ×2
    44. TickTick ×2
    45. Wind ×2
    46. TickTick
    47. Wind ×2
    48. TickTick
    49. Wind ×2
    50. TickTick
    51. Wind
    52. Construction BotCon bot
    53. Wind
    54. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    55. Wind ×2
    56. Construction BotCon bot
    57. Wind
    58. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:47 · typical 9:54
    59. Wind
    60. Construction BotCon bot
    61. Wind ×3
    62. Con turret
    63. Wind
    64. TickTick ×2
    65. Wind
    66. TickTick
    67. Wind
    68. TickTick
    69. Wind
    70. TickTick
    71. Wind ×2
    72. TickTick
    73. Wind ×2
    74. TickTick
    75. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    76. Wind
    77. TickTick
    78. Wind ×2
    79. TickTick ×2
    80. Wind
    81. TickTick ×2
    82. Wind
    83. TickTick
    84. Wind
    85. TickTick
    86. Wind
    87. TickTick ×2
    88. Wind ×2
    89. TickTick
    90. Wind
    91. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    92. TickTick
    93. Wind
    94. TickTick ×2
    95. Wind
    96. TickTick ×2
    97. Wind
    98. TickTick ×2
    99. Wind ×2
    100. TickTick
    101. Wind
    102. TickTick
    103. Wind ×2
    104. TickTick
    105. Wind
    106. TickTick
    107. Wind
    108. TickTick
    109. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    110. Wind
    111. TickTick ×2
    112. Wind ×2
    113. TickTick
    114. Wind
    115. TickTick
    116. Wind
    117. TickTick
    118. Wind
    119. TickTick
    120. Wind ×2
    121. TickTick
    122. Wind
    123. TickTick
    124. Wind ×2
    125. TickTick
    126. Wind ×2
    127. TickTick ×2
    128. Wind
    129. TickTick
    130. Wind
    131. TickTick
    132. Wind
    133. TickTick
    134. Wind
    135. TickTick
    136. Wind
    137. TickTick
    138. Converter
    139. TickTick
    140. Wind ×2
    141. TickTick
    142. Con turret
    143. Wind
    144. TickTick
    145. Wind
    146. TickTick
    147. Converter
    148. Wind
    149. TickTick
    150. Con turret ×2
    151. TickTick
    152. Converter
    153. TickTick
    154. Wind
    155. TickTick ×2
    156. Wind
    157. TickTick ×2
    158. Wind
    159. Converter
    160. TickTick ×2
    161. Wind
    162. Fusion ReactorFusionnot finished by 15:00
    163. PawnPawn
    164. Wind
    165. PawnPawn
    166. Con turret
    167. Wind
    168. Converter
    169. PawnPawn ×4
    170. Converter
    171. PawnPawn ×2
    172. Wind
    173. PawnPawn ×2
    174. Converter
    175. PawnPawn ×3

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Lexosis's (36 OS, 29/09/2026); 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 90% of games

You get

  • Hercules1 Light transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:28 · in 31% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:44 · in 39% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 5:03 · in 40% of games
  • Sharpshooter2 Sniper bot from Techfirst at 5:16 · in 42% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 8:18 · in 92% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build, running totals by minute

Metal produced

010k20k
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

553 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027300
3:0082000
4:00151000
5:00223100
6:00298400
7:0038434590
8:0047571240138
9:0057191965375
10:0069002780713
11:00840432701147
12:001035735791578
13:001262541961940
14:001497947632417
15:001768153183015
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

This is the role's standard support job, winning slightly under half its games while contributing modest kills for modest losses.

  • + Keeps own losses fairly low relative to kills (2827 destroyed vs 756 lost by 10:00).
  • + Reaches T2 constructor reliably (89% of games) by 8:10.
  • − Metal production trails other roles at 6855 by 10:00.
  • − No kills registered by 5:00, slow to impact the fight.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

Lexosis

36.2 OS · 29/09/2026

Open source match ↗

12 received units · includes a constructor
123 metal received · 94299 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:36Middle 50%: 3:31–7:00 · n=497
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:38 · n=501

Played most by

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