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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 · 448 distinct matches · 96 players · 59% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 510 · 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 448 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 ~5:40, middle half 3:31–7:01

    Some games also: converter (44%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 4 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Mex ×4
    3. Wind ×4
    4. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:02 · typical 5:40
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine16Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret
    • Construction Bot2 Con bot

    Some games also: tick (49%) · Lazarus (48%) · converter (43%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 340 steps
    1. Wind
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. Wind ×3
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. Wind
    6. Converter
    7. Wind
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. Converter
    10. Construction BotCon bot
    11. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    12. Construction BotCon bot
    13. Metal storage
    14. Construction BotCon bot
    15. Mex
    16. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    17. Mex
    18. Construction BotCon bot ×7
    19. Wind ×3
    20. Construction BotCon bot
    21. Wind
    22. Construction BotCon bot
    23. Wind ×3
    24. Construction BotCon bot
    25. Wind ×14
    26. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:59 · typical 9:56
    27. Wind
    28. Converter
    29. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×2
    30. Converter
    31. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    32. Wind ×3
    33. Converter
    34. Wind ×3
    35. Converter
    36. Wind ×5
    37. Converter
    38. Bot LabBot Labdone 9:54
    39. Wind ×6
    40. Converter
    41. Wind ×6
    42. Converter
    43. Wind
    44. ShipyardShipyarddone 10:16
    45. Wind ×3
    46. Construction BotCon bot
    47. Wind ×3
    48. Converter
    49. Wind ×4
    50. Construction BotCon bot
    51. Wind
    52. Converter
    53. Wind
    54. Construction ShipCon ship
    55. Wind ×2
    56. Construction BotCon bot
    57. Wind ×4
    58. Converter ×2
    59. Wind ×2
    60. Construction BotCon bot
    61. Wind ×3
    62. Converter ×2
    63. Wind ×3
    64. Construction ShipCon ship
    65. Construction BotCon bot
    66. Wind ×4
    67. Converter
    68. Wind ×2
    69. Construction BotCon bot
    70. Wind
    71. Converter
    72. Wind ×3
    73. Converter
    74. Wind
    75. Construction ShipCon ship
    76. Wind ×2
    77. Construction BotCon bot
    78. Wind
    79. Converter
    80. Wind ×4
    81. Converter
    82. Construction ShipCon ship
    83. Wind ×2
    84. Converter
    85. Wind ×2
    86. Converter
    87. Wind ×2
    88. Construction ShipCon ship
    89. Converter
    90. TickTick
    91. Wind ×2
    92. TickTick
    93. Wind ×2
    94. Converter
    95. TickTick
    96. Construction ShipCon ship
    97. Wind ×2
    98. Converter
    99. TickTick
    100. Wind
    101. Converter
    102. Wind
    103. TickTick
    104. Wind
    105. TickTick
    106. Wind ×2
    107. Converter
    108. TickTick
    109. Wind ×2
    110. Converter
    111. TickTick
    112. Energy storage
    113. Wind ×2
    114. Converter
    115. Wind ×3
    116. TickTick
    117. Converter
    118. Wind ×3
    119. Converter
    120. TickTick
    121. Wind
    122. Naval Construction Turret
    123. Wind
    124. Converter
    125. Wind
    126. TickTick
    127. Wind ×2
    128. Converter
    129. Wind
    130. TickTick
    131. Wind
    132. Converter
    133. Naval Construction Turret
    134. Wind
    135. TickTick
    136. Wind ×2
    137. TickTick
    138. Wind
    139. Converter
    140. Wind
    141. Naval Construction Turret
    142. TickTick
    143. Converter
    144. Wind ×3
    145. TickTick
    146. Converter
    147. Naval Construction Turret
    148. Wind
    149. TickTick
    150. Wind
    151. Naval Construction Turret
    152. Wind
    153. TickTick
    154. Wind ×2
    155. TickTick
    156. Naval Construction Turret
    157. Wind
    158. Converter ×2
    159. Wind
    160. TickTick
    161. Wind
    162. Naval Construction Turret
    163. Converter
    164. Wind ×2
    165. TickTick
    166. Naval Construction Turret
    167. Wind ×2
    168. Naval Construction Turret
    169. TickTick
    170. Naval Construction Turret
    171. Wind
    172. TickTick
    173. Wind
    174. Converter
    175. Wind
    176. Converter
    177. Naval Construction Turret
    178. TickTick
    179. Wind ×2
    180. Converter
    181. Naval Construction Turret
    182. TickTick
    183. Wind
    184. Naval Construction Turret
    185. Wind
    186. Naval Construction Turret
    187. Wind
    188. TickTick
    189. Wind ×2
    190. TickTick
    191. Converter
    192. Wind
    193. Converter
    194. Wind ×2
    195. Converter
    196. TickTick
    197. Wind
    198. Naval Construction Turret
    199. Wind
    200. TickTick
    201. Wind ×3
    202. TickTick
    203. Wind
    204. Converter
    205. Wind
    206. Converter
    207. Naval Construction Turret
    208. Wind
    209. TickTick
    210. Converter
    211. Wind ×2
    212. TickTick
    213. Wind ×2
    214. TickTick
    215. Wind
    216. Seaplane PlatformSeaplane Platformdone 13:51
    217. Naval Construction Turret
    218. Wind
    219. Converter
    220. Wind
    221. TickTick
    222. Converter
    223. Wind ×2
    224. TickTick
    225. Converter
    226. Wind ×3
    227. TickTick
    228. Wind
    229. Converter
    230. Wind
    231. Converter
    232. Wind
    233. TickTick
    234. Wind
    235. Converter
    236. Wind ×2
    237. TickTick
    238. Wind ×2
    239. TickTick
    240. Converter ×2
    241. Wind ×4
    242. TickTick
    243. Converter
    244. Tidal
    245. Wind
    246. TickTick
    247. Naval Construction Turret
    248. Naval Energy Converter
    249. Wind
    250. Tidal
    251. Wind ×2
    252. TickTick
    253. Wind
    254. Converter
    255. Tidal
    256. Converter
    257. Tidal
    258. TsunamiTsunami
    259. Wind
    260. Tidal
    261. Naval Energy Converter
    262. TickTick
    263. Wind
    264. Naval Energy Converter
    265. Converter
    266. Wind ×3
    267. TickTick
    268. Wind
    269. TsunamiTsunami
    270. Tidal
    271. TickTick
    272. Wind
    273. Converter ×2
    274. Wind ×3
    275. Naval Energy Converter
    276. TickTick
    277. TsunamiTsunami
    278. Wind
    279. Naval Energy Converter
    280. Converter
    281. Naval Energy Converter
    282. Wind
    283. TickTick
    284. Naval Energy Converter
    285. Tidal
    286. Wind ×2
    287. Naval Energy Converter
    288. Wind
    289. Tidal
    290. Wind
    291. TsunamiTsunami
    292. Tidal
    293. Converter
    294. Naval Energy Converter
    295. Converter
    296. Tidal
    297. Naval Energy Converter ×2
    298. Wind
    299. Converter
    300. Wind
    301. TickTick
    302. Wind
    303. TsunamiTsunami
    304. Wind
    305. Naval Energy Converter
    306. Tidal
    307. Wind
    308. Tidal
    309. TickTick
    310. Naval Energy Converter ×2
    311. Wind
    312. TsunamiTsunami
    313. Converter
    314. Wind
    315. Converter
    316. Wind
    317. Naval Energy Converter ×2
    318. Wind ×2
    319. Converter
    320. Naval Energy Converter
    321. Tidal
    322. Wind ×2
    323. TsunamiTsunami
    324. Tidal
    325. Wind ×2
    326. Tidal
    327. Naval Energy Converter
    328. Wind
    329. TickTick
    330. Tidal
    331. Converter ×2
    332. TsunamiTsunami
    333. Naval Energy Converter ×3
    334. TickTick
    335. Tidal
    336. Wind ×2
    337. Converter
    338. TsunamiTsunami
    339. Wind ×3
    340. TickTick

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Viltrum's (41 OS, 19/09/2026); 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 4:26 · in 31% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:41 · in 38% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 4:59 · in 40% of games
  • Sharpshooter2 Sniper bot from Techfirst at 5:15 · in 42% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 8:17 · 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

510 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027300
3:0081700
4:00151000
5:00223100
6:00298500
7:0038414800
8:0047421276148
9:0056932025379
10:0068722865720
11:00833433171188
12:001029036841616
13:001259342621966
14:001491447802454
15:001745653243030
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

Viltrum

40.6 OS · 19/09/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
2519 metal received · 22061 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:40Middle 50%: 3:31–7:01 · n=459
Advanced Metal Extractor9:56Middle 50%: 9:01–10:38 · n=460

Played most by

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