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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 · 9 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×8
    5. Energy storagefor Front
    6. Energy storage
    7. Wind ×10
    8. Converter ×8
    9. Bot LabBot Labdone 6:50 · 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 · 138 steps
    1. TickTick ×12
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. Construction BotCon botfor Suicide front
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. Construction BotCon botfor Suicide front
    6. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:01 · typical 9:56
    7. TickTick ×9
    8. Wind
    9. PawnPawn
    10. Wind
    11. PawnPawn
    12. Naval Energy Converter
    13. PawnPawn
    14. Wind
    15. Naval Energy Converter
    16. PawnPawn
    17. Wind
    18. PawnPawn
    19. Naval Energy Converter
    20. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    21. PawnPawn
    22. Wind
    23. Naval Energy Converter
    24. PawnPawn
    25. Naval Energy Converter
    26. Wind
    27. PawnPawn
    28. Naval Energy Converter
    29. PawnPawn
    30. Wind
    31. TickTick ×2
    32. Naval Energy Converter
    33. TickTick
    34. Wind
    35. TickTick ×2
    36. Naval Energy Converter
    37. TickTick
    38. Wind
    39. CenturionCenturion
    40. Naval Energy Converter
    41. Wind
    42. Naval Energy Converter
    43. Wind
    44. CenturionCenturion
    45. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    46. Naval Energy Converter
    47. Wind
    48. CenturionCenturion
    49. Wind
    50. Naval Energy Converter
    51. CenturionCenturion
    52. Naval Energy Converter
    53. Wind
    54. Naval Energy Converter
    55. Wind
    56. CenturionCenturion
    57. Wind
    58. Naval Energy Converter
    59. PawnPawn
    60. Wind
    61. PawnPawn
    62. Naval Energy Converter
    63. PawnPawn
    64. Wind
    65. Naval Energy Converter
    66. PawnPawn ×2
    67. Naval Energy Converter
    68. PawnPawn
    69. Wind
    70. PawnPawn
    71. Naval Energy Converter
    72. PawnPawn
    73. Wind
    74. Con turret
    75. Naval Energy Converter
    76. Construction BotCon bot
    77. Naval Energy Converter
    78. Wind
    79. Naval Energy Converter
    80. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    81. Wind
    82. Construction BotCon bot
    83. Con turret
    84. Naval Energy Converter
    85. Wind
    86. Naval Energy Converter
    87. Wind
    88. Construction BotCon bot
    89. Naval Energy Converter
    90. Wind
    91. Construction BotCon bot
    92. PawnPawn
    93. Naval Energy Converter
    94. Construction BotCon bot
    95. PawnPawn
    96. Wind
    97. PawnPawn ×2
    98. Naval Energy Converter
    99. PawnPawn
    100. LazarusLazarus
    101. Wind
    102. LazarusLazarus
    103. Naval Energy Converter
    104. LazarusLazarus
    105. Wind
    106. PawnPawn ×2
    107. Naval Energy Converter
    108. PawnPawn
    109. Wind
    110. PawnPawn
    111. FerretFerret
    112. PawnPawn ×2
    113. Naval Energy Converter
    114. PawnPawn ×2
    115. Wind
    116. PawnPawn ×2
    117. Naval Energy Converter
    118. PawnPawn ×3
    119. Wind
    120. PawnPawn ×3
    121. Naval Energy Converter
    122. Con turret
    123. Wind
    124. PawnPawn
    125. Con turret
    126. Naval Energy Converter
    127. PawnPawn ×2
    128. Wind
    129. JunoJuno
    130. Con turret
    131. PawnPawn
    132. Naval Energy Converter
    133. Con turret
    134. Wind
    135. CenturionCenturion
    136. PawnPawn ×2
    137. Naval Energy Converter
    138. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Espera's (38 OS, 22/09/2026); 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

Espera

37.8 OS · 22/09/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
628 metal received · 233283 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

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