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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 · 16 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Wind ×4
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×4
    5. Energy storage
    6. Converter
    7. Wind ×2
    8. BeamerBeamer
    9. Converter
    10. BeamerBeamer
    11. Converter
    12. BeamerBeamer ×2
    13. Converter
    14. Wind ×2
    15. BeamerBeamer
    16. Bot LabBot Labdone 4:54 · 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 · 236 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. Wind
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Wind
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Wind
    7. PawnPawn
    8. Wind
    9. PawnPawn
    10. Wind
    11. TickTick
    12. PawnPawn
    13. Wind
    14. LazarusLazarus
    15. Wind
    16. PawnPawn
    17. TickTick
    18. PawnPawn
    19. Converter
    20. PawnPawn
    21. TickTick
    22. Converter
    23. PawnPawn ×2
    24. Wind
    25. TickTick
    26. PawnPawn
    27. Wind
    28. PawnPawn
    29. Wind
    30. TickTick
    31. PawnPawn
    32. Wind
    33. PawnPawn
    34. Wind
    35. TickTick
    36. Wind
    37. PawnPawn ×2
    38. Wind
    39. TickTick
    40. Wind
    41. PawnPawn
    42. Wind
    43. LazarusLazarus
    44. Wind
    45. Construction BotCon bot
    46. Wind
    47. Construction BotCon bot
    48. Bot LabBot Labdone 8:15
    49. LazarusLazarus ×2
    50. PawnPawn
    51. TickTick
    52. PawnPawn
    53. Wind
    54. PawnPawn
    55. Wind
    56. TickTick
    57. PawnPawn ×2
    58. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:54 · typical 9:56
    59. Wind
    60. PawnPawn
    61. TickTick
    62. Construction BotCon bot
    63. PawnPawn
    64. Wind
    65. PawnPawn
    66. Wind
    67. TickTick
    68. PawnPawn
    69. Wind
    70. PawnPawn
    71. TickTick
    72. Wind
    73. PawnPawn
    74. Construction BotCon bot
    75. PawnPawn
    76. TickTick
    77. Construction BotCon bot
    78. PawnPawn
    79. LazarusLazarus ×2
    80. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    81. Construction BotCon bot
    82. PawnPawnfor Suicide front
    83. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    84. PawnPawn
    85. TickTick
    86. PawnPawnfor Suicide front
    87. TickTick
    88. PawnPawn
    89. Con turret
    90. PawnPawn ×2for Suicide front
    91. TickTick ×2
    92. Con turret
    93. PawnPawnfor Suicide front
    94. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    95. PawnPawn ×3for Suicide front
    96. Con turret
    97. TickTickfor Suicide front
    98. PawnPawnfor Suicide front
    99. Converter
    100. TickTickfor Suicide front
    101. PawnPawnfor Suicide front
    102. Con turret
    103. PawnPawnfor Suicide front
    104. LazarusLazarus
    105. Converter
    106. LazarusLazarus
    107. Wind ×2
    108. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 13:05
    109. TickTickfor Suicide front
    110. Wind
    111. Converter
    112. PawnPawnfor Suicide front
    113. Wind ×2
    114. PawnPawn ×2for Suicide front
    115. Wind ×2
    116. TickTickfor Suicide front
    117. Wind
    118. TickTickfor Suicide front
    119. Wind
    120. PawnPawn ×2for Suicide front
    121. Wind ×3
    122. PawnPawn ×2for Suicide front
    123. Wind
    124. TickTickfor Suicide front
    125. Converter
    126. Construction BotCon bot
    127. TickTickfor Suicide front
    128. Wind ×2
    129. PawnPawnfor Suicide front
    130. Converter
    131. PawnPawn ×2for Suicide front
    132. Wind ×2
    133. PawnPawnfor Suicide front
    134. Wind
    135. TickTickfor Suicide front
    136. Wind
    137. TickTickfor Suicide front
    138. Con turret
    139. Wind
    140. PawnPawnfor Suicide front
    141. Wind
    142. Converter
    143. PawnPawn ×2for Suicide front
    144. Wind ×2
    145. TickTickfor Suicide front
    146. Converter
    147. Wind
    148. Con turret
    149. Wind
    150. PawnPawnfor Suicide front
    151. PawnPawn
    152. Converter
    153. Wind ×2
    154. PawnPawn
    155. Wind
    156. Converter
    157. TickTick
    158. T2 converter
    159. Wind
    160. Bot LabBot Labdone 13:55
    161. TickTick
    162. Wind
    163. Converter
    164. PawnPawn ×2
    165. Wind
    166. Converter
    167. Wind
    168. PawnPawn ×2
    169. Wind
    170. PawnPawn ×2
    171. TickTick
    172. Converter
    173. Wind
    174. TickTick
    175. PawnPawn
    176. TickTick
    177. Wind
    178. PawnPawn
    179. Wind
    180. PawnPawn
    181. Converter
    182. PawnPawn ×2
    183. Con turret
    184. TickTick ×2
    185. Wind
    186. PawnPawn
    187. Wind
    188. PawnPawn
    189. Wind
    190. PawnPawn ×3
    191. Wind
    192. TickTick ×2
    193. Wind
    194. TickTick
    195. PawnPawn ×3
    196. LazarusLazarus
    197. Wind
    198. LazarusLazarus
    199. Wind ×2
    200. LazarusLazarus
    201. Converter
    202. PawnPawn
    203. Wind
    204. PawnPawn ×2
    205. Wind
    206. TickTick
    207. Converter
    208. TickTick
    209. PawnPawn
    210. Wind
    211. PawnPawn
    212. TickTick
    213. Wind
    214. PawnPawn
    215. Converter
    216. PawnPawn ×2
    217. TickTick
    218. Construction BotCon bot
    219. Wind
    220. Construction BotCon bot
    221. Converter
    222. Wind
    223. PawnPawn
    224. TickTick
    225. Wind
    226. Converter
    227. PawnPawn ×2
    228. TickTick
    229. PawnPawn
    230. BeamerBeamer
    231. PawnPawn
    232. Converter
    233. Wind
    234. TickTick
    235. PawnPawn
    236. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [Grump]Grumpiness's (49 OS, 24/09/2026); 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

[Grump]Grumpiness

49.3 OS · 24/09/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
1204 metal received · 44407 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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