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Standard pond

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 · 485 distinct matches · 107 players · 59% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 552 · 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 485 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 · 15 steps
    1. Tidal ×11
    2. Mex ×4
    3. Tidal ×3
    4. SentrySentry ×4
    5. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    6. Mexfor Geo
    7. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:32 · typical 9:54
    8. SentrySentry
    9. Tidal ×3
    10. SentrySentry
    11. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    12. Tidal
    13. HarpoonHarpoon
    14. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    15. Bot LabBot Labdone 10:27 · 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 · 134 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Con turret
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Wind
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Wind ×3
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Wind ×5
    11. TickTick
    12. Wind
    13. TickTick
    14. Wind ×2
    15. TickTick
    16. Wind
    17. Con turret
    18. TickTick
    19. Wind
    20. TickTick
    21. Wind ×3
    22. TickTick
    23. Wind ×2
    24. TickTick
    25. Wind ×3
    26. TickTick
    27. Wind ×2
    28. Con turret
    29. Wind
    30. Energy storage
    31. TickTick
    32. Wind ×2
    33. TickTick
    34. Wind ×2
    35. TickTick
    36. Wind
    37. Con turret
    38. TickTick
    39. Wind ×2
    40. Con turret
    41. Wind
    42. TickTick
    43. Wind ×2
    44. Construction BotCon bot
    45. Wind
    46. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 13:01
    47. Wind ×3
    48. TickTick
    49. Wind ×2
    50. TickTick
    51. Wind ×2
    52. TickTick
    53. Wind ×2
    54. TickTick
    55. Wind ×2
    56. BlitzBlitz
    57. TickTick
    58. Wind
    59. TickTick
    60. Wind ×3
    61. TickTick
    62. BlitzBlitz
    63. TickTick
    64. Wind ×4
    65. BlitzBlitz
    66. Construction BotCon bot
    67. Wind
    68. TickTick
    69. Wind
    70. BlitzBlitz
    71. TickTick
    72. Wind ×3
    73. TickTick
    74. Wind ×2
    75. TickTick
    76. Wind
    77. TickTick
    78. BlitzBlitz
    79. Wind ×3
    80. TickTick ×2
    81. Wind
    82. TickTick
    83. BlitzBlitz
    84. Wind ×3
    85. Construction BotCon bot
    86. Wind
    87. BlitzBlitz
    88. Wind ×2
    89. Construction BotCon bot
    90. Wind
    91. BlitzBlitz
    92. Wind
    93. Construction BotCon bot
    94. Wind ×2
    95. BlitzBlitz
    96. Wind
    97. Construction BotCon bot
    98. Wind ×2
    99. BlitzBlitz
    100. Construction BotCon bot
    101. Wind
    102. BlitzBlitz
    103. Wind ×4
    104. Construction BotCon bot
    105. Wind
    106. Energy storage
    107. BlitzBlitz
    108. Wind
    109. TickTick
    110. Wind ×2
    111. TickTick
    112. Wind
    113. BlitzBlitz
    114. Converter
    115. Wind
    116. TickTick ×2
    117. Wind
    118. TickTick
    119. Wind
    120. TickTick
    121. BlitzBlitz
    122. TickTick
    123. Wind
    124. TickTick
    125. Converter
    126. Wind
    127. BlitzBlitz
    128. Construction BotCon bot
    129. Wind ×2
    130. BlitzBlitz
    131. Converter
    132. Wind ×2
    133. TickTick
    134. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Handicapping_mySelf's (36 OS, 11/09/2026); 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

552 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
7:0038434600
8:0047571245139
9:0057151971377
10:0069002791714
11:00838032701148
12:001035735821584
13:001262341971941
14:001497747652420
15:001762253213019
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

Handicapping_mySelf

36.3 OS · 11/09/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
43 metal received · 11392 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=496
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:38 · n=500

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