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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 · 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 · 1 step
    1. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:02 · 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 · 170 steps
    1. Tidal ×6for Suicide front
    2. Mex
    3. Tidal ×2for Suicide front
    4. Mex
    5. Tidal ×2for Suicide front
    6. LazarusLazarusfor Suicide front
    7. Tidal ×2
    8. LazarusLazarusfor Suicide front
    9. Mex
    10. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    11. Mex
    12. Con turret
    13. Wind ×5
    14. LazarusLazarus
    15. Wind ×6
    16. Converter
    17. Wind
    18. Converter
    19. Wind ×2
    20. Converter ×2
    21. Wind
    22. Converter
    23. Wind ×2
    24. Converter
    25. Wind
    26. Construction BotCon bot
    27. Wind ×5
    28. BeamerBeamer
    29. Wind ×2
    30. Construction BotCon bot
    31. Wind
    32. Con turret
    33. Wind ×10
    34. Con turret
    35. Wind ×19
    36. Energy storage
    37. Wind ×38
    38. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:08 · typical 9:54
    39. Wind ×2
    40. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×2
    41. Converter ×3
    42. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    43. Bot LabBot Lab ×2not finished by 15:00
    44. TickTick ×8
    45. T2 converter
    46. TickTick ×2
    47. Con turret
    48. TickTick ×2
    49. Con turret
    50. TickTick ×19
    51. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 11:21
    52. TickTick ×11
    53. Wind
    54. TickTick ×2
    55. CompassRadar bot
    56. TickTick ×2
    57. Wind
    58. SmugglerJammer bot
    59. TickTick ×3
    60. SharpshooterSniper botdone 11:50
    61. TickTick
    62. Wind
    63. TickTick ×5
    64. Wind
    65. TickTick ×2
    66. Con turret
    67. SharpshooterSniper bot
    68. TickTick
    69. Con turret
    70. Wind
    71. TickTick ×2
    72. Wind
    73. TickTick ×2
    74. Wind
    75. TickTick ×3
    76. SharpshooterSniper bot
    77. TickTick
    78. Wind
    79. TickTick ×4
    80. Wind
    81. TickTick ×2
    82. Wind
    83. TickTick
    84. Wind
    85. TickTick
    86. Wind
    87. TickTick ×3
    88. Wind
    89. TickTick
    90. Wind
    91. TickTick
    92. Wind
    93. TickTick ×2
    94. WelderWelder
    95. TickTick
    96. Wind
    97. TickTick
    98. WelderWelder
    99. TickTick ×2
    100. Wind
    101. TickTick
    102. WelderWelder
    103. TickTick ×2
    104. Wind
    105. TickTick
    106. WelderWelder
    107. TickTick ×3
    108. WelderWelder
    109. TickTick ×2
    110. Con turret
    111. TickTick
    112. Con turret
    113. TickTick
    114. WelderWelder
    115. TickTick ×3
    116. WelderWelder
    117. TickTick ×3
    118. Wind
    119. TickTick
    120. WelderWelder
    121. TickTick ×2
    122. Wind
    123. WelderWelder
    124. TickTick ×2
    125. Wind
    126. TickTick ×2
    127. WelderWelder
    128. TickTick
    129. Wind
    130. TickTick ×2
    131. ButlerButler
    132. TickTick
    133. Wind
    134. TickTick
    135. ButlerButler
    136. TickTick ×2
    137. Wind
    138. TickTick ×4
    139. Wind
    140. TickTick ×3
    141. Wind
    142. TickTick ×4
    143. Wind
    144. TickTick ×4
    145. Wind
    146. TickTick ×2
    147. ButlerButler
    148. TickTick
    149. Wind
    150. TickTick
    151. ButlerButler
    152. TickTick ×3
    153. Wind
    154. TickTick
    155. Advanced Construction BotT2 con bot
    156. TickTick
    157. Wind
    158. TickTick
    159. Wind
    160. TickTick ×3
    161. Wind ×2
    162. TickTick
    163. Wind
    164. TickTick
    165. Wind
    166. TickTick ×2
    167. TumbleweedRolling bomb
    168. Wind
    169. TickTick
    170. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is dsys's (37 OS, 26/09/2026); 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

dsys

37.5 OS · 26/09/2026

Open source match ↗

2 received units · includes a constructor
400 metal received · 18500 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

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