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Armada Pond build order · Supreme Isthmus

Pond's usual economy-first play: Bot Lab around 5:35, boosting the fronts with tidal/wind, then Advanced Metal Extractor and T1 units to help front.

#eco #team support · 493 distinct matches · 109 players · 60% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 561 · 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 493 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 3:32–7:02

    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 · 19 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×2
    5. Energy storage
    6. Wind ×3
    7. Converter ×2
    8. Wind ×3
    9. Converter
    10. Wind
    11. Converter
    12. Wind ×2
    13. Converter ×2
    14. Solar
    15. Con turret ×3
    16. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 6:43 · typical 9:54
    17. Con turret ×2
    18. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×3
    19. Bot LabBot Labdone 7:49 · 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 (47%) · 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 · 441 steps
    1. Wind ×5
    2. Bot LabBot Labdone 8:12
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Wind
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    6. Wind ×3
    7. Wind
    8. TickTick ×2
    9. Converter
    10. Wind
    11. Converter
    12. TickTick
    13. Wind
    14. TickTick ×7
    15. Converter
    16. TickTick ×4
    17. Wind
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    28. Converter
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    30. Wind
    31. TickTick ×5
    32. Converter
    33. TickTick ×2
    34. Converter
    35. TickTick
    36. Wind
    37. TickTick ×8
    38. Wind
    39. TickTick ×2
    40. Converter
    41. TickTick ×3
    42. Con turret
    43. Construction BotCon bot
    44. TickTick
    45. Converter
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    47. Wind
    48. TickTick
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    50. TickTick
    51. Wind
    52. TickTick ×5
    53. Wind
    54. TickTick
    55. Wind
    56. Converter
    57. TickTick ×3
    58. Wind
    59. TickTick ×6
    60. Wind
    61. TickTick ×2
    62. Wind ×2
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    64. Construction BotCon bot
    65. Wind
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    67. Converter
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    69. TickTick ×2
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    71. TickTick ×3
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    77. Converter
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    79. TickTick ×3
    80. Wind
    81. TickTick ×2
    82. Construction BotCon bot
    83. Converter
    84. TickTick
    85. Wind
    86. TickTick ×2
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    89. Con turret
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    92. TickTick ×2
    93. Converter
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    95. Wind
    96. TickTick ×3
    97. Converter
    98. TickTick ×6
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    102. Construction BotCon bot
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    106. Wind ×3
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    110. Converter
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    113. Con turret
    114. Wind
    115. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    116. Wind ×3
    117. Converter
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    135. TickTick ×3
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    138. Wind ×2
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    140. Con turret
    141. TickTick ×4
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    147. TickTick ×2
    148. Converter
    149. TickTick ×3
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    153. Converter
    154. TickTick ×3
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    160. TickTick ×5
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    167. TickTick ×3
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    180. TickTick ×3
    181. Con turret
    182. TickTick ×2
    183. Wind ×2
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    190. TickTick ×2
    191. Converter
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    199. SentrySentry
    200. Wind
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    219. Con turret
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    228. TickTick ×4
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    230. TickTick ×2
    231. Wind
    232. TickTick
    233. Energy storage
    234. TickTick
    235. Converter
    236. TickTick
    237. Converter
    238. Wind
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    240. Wind ×3
    241. TickTick ×2
    242. Energy storage
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    244. Wind
    245. Converter
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    254. Construction BotCon bot
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    262. Wind
    263. TickTick
    264. Converter
    265. Wind ×4
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    275. TickTick ×3
    276. Converter
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    281. TickTick
    282. Converter
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    296. Converter
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    298. TickTick ×4
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    304. TickTick ×3
    305. Converter
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    314. TickTick ×2
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    320. TickTick
    321. Converter
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    324. TickTick ×3
    325. Converter
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    333. Converter
    334. TickTick
    335. Wind ×3
    336. TickTick
    337. Wind
    338. Converter
    339. Wind
    340. TickTick ×2
    341. Converter
    342. Con turret
    343. TickTick
    344. Wind
    345. TickTick ×2
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    349. TickTick ×2
    350. Wind ×2
    351. TickTick
    352. Wind ×2
    353. TickTick
    354. Converter
    355. Wind
    356. Converter
    357. Wind
    358. TickTick ×2
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    360. TickTick
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    362. TickTick
    363. Converter
    364. Wind
    365. TickTick ×3
    366. Wind
    367. TickTick ×2
    368. Wind
    369. Converter
    370. TickTick
    371. Wind ×3
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    373. Converter
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    390. Converter ×2
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    400. Converter
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    412. TickTick
    413. Con turret
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    419. TickTick ×2
    420. Wind ×2
    421. Converter
    422. Wind
    423. TickTick
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    425. TickTick ×2
    426. Converter
    427. Wind ×2
    428. TickTick
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    430. Wind
    431. TickTick ×2
    432. Wind
    433. ShipyardShipyardnot finished by 15:00
    434. Wind ×2
    435. TickTick
    436. Con turret
    437. TickTick
    438. Wind
    439. TickTick
    440. Converter
    441. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is ChaoticNoob's (35 OS, 30/09/2026); 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 30% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:43 · in 38% 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 93% 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

561 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027300
3:0081900
4:00151000
5:00223100
6:00298400
7:0038484540
8:0047571240130
9:0057101965370
10:0069102763713
11:00841732701149
12:001038635791578
13:001269541841940
14:001506647452423
15:001770253143022
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

ChaoticNoob

35.0 OS · 30/09/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
352 metal received · 223044 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:36Middle 50%: 3:32–7:02 · n=504
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:38 · n=509

Played most by

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