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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 · 473 distinct matches · 104 players · 60% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 541 · 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 473 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 ~5:37, middle half 3:31–7:01

    Some games also: converter (45%)

    By 5:08 in all: 4 mex · 10 wind · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 6 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind
    3. Mex
    4. Wind ×5
    5. Energy storage
    6. Bot LabBot Labdone 2:05 · typical 5:37
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 10:00

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

    Some games also: tick (50%) · Lazarus (48%) · converter (44%)

    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 · 156 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    2. Wind
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Wind ×3
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Wind
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Wind ×2
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Wind ×2
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. NettleNettle ×2
    13. Wind ×3
    14. Construction BotCon bot
    15. Wind
    16. Mex
    17. Wind ×2
    18. Construction BotCon bot
    19. Wind ×4
    20. Construction BotCon bot
    21. Wind ×3
    22. Construction BotCon bot
    23. Wind ×4
    24. Construction BotCon bot
    25. Wind ×2
    26. Construction BotCon bot
    27. Wind ×3
    28. Converter
    29. Wind ×3
    30. Converter
    31. Wind
    32. Converter
    33. Wind ×2
    34. Construction BotCon bot
    35. Converter
    36. Wind ×2
    37. Converter
    38. Wind
    39. Converter
    40. Wind
    41. Converter
    42. Wind ×3
    43. Converter
    44. Construction BotCon bot
    45. Converter
    46. Wind ×2
    47. Converter
    48. Wind
    49. Converter
    50. Wind
    51. Converter
    52. Wind
    53. Construction BotCon bot
    54. Wind ×2
    55. Converter ×3
    56. Wind ×2
    57. Converter
    58. Wind
    59. Converter
    60. Wind ×3
    61. Converter ×2
    62. Wind ×3
    63. Converter
    64. Metal storage
    65. Wind ×6
    66. Converter ×2
    67. Con turret
    68. Wind ×2
    69. Converter
    70. Wind
    71. Converter
    72. Wind ×5
    73. Converter
    74. Wind
    75. Converter
    76. Wind ×5
    77. Converter
    78. Wind ×7
    79. Converter
    80. Con turret
    81. Wind ×2
    82. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 8:15
    83. Converter ×2
    84. BlitzBlitz
    85. Wind ×2
    86. Converter
    87. BlitzBlitz
    88. Wind ×2
    89. BlitzBlitz
    90. Wind ×2
    91. BlitzBlitz
    92. Wind ×2
    93. Converter
    94. Wind ×2
    95. BlitzBlitz
    96. Wind
    97. BlitzBlitz
    98. Wind ×3
    99. BlitzBlitz
    100. Converter
    101. Wind ×2
    102. BlitzBlitz
    103. Wind ×3
    104. BlitzBlitz
    105. Converter
    106. Wind
    107. BlitzBlitz
    108. Wind ×2
    109. Converter
    110. BlitzBlitz ×2
    111. Wind
    112. BlitzBlitz
    113. Wind
    114. Converter
    115. BlitzBlitz ×3
    116. Converter
    117. BlitzBlitz
    118. Wind
    119. BlitzBlitz
    120. Wind ×2
    121. Converter
    122. BlitzBlitz ×2
    123. Converter
    124. BlitzBlitz
    125. Converter
    126. BlitzBlitz ×2
    127. Converter
    128. BlitzBlitz
    129. Converter
    130. BlitzBlitz
    131. Wind
    132. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    133. Converter
    134. Wind
    135. Metal storage
    136. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    137. Converter
    138. Advanced Vehicle PlantAdvanced Vehicle Plantdone 12:54
    139. Advanced Construction VehicleT2 con vehicle
    140. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×3done 13:49 · typical 9:56
    141. Con turret
    142. Wind
    143. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    144. Wind
    145. Con turret
    146. Converter
    147. Wind ×3
    148. Con turret
    149. Wind ×2
    150. Con turret
    151. Converter
    152. Wind ×4
    153. Con turret
    154. Wind
    155. Con turret
    156. Wind ×3

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Viltrum's (41 OS, 15/09/2026); 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 4:32 · in 31% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:43 · in 39% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 5:02 · 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

541 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027200
3:0081700
4:00150700
5:00223100
6:00298300
7:0038434600
8:0047501269147
9:0056992025378
10:0068742840714
11:00833732981178
12:001029136611603
13:001261442021959
14:001493647782448
15:001751853403029
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

41.4 OS · 15/09/2026

Open source match ↗

0 received units
9 metal received · 232 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:37Middle 50%: 3:31–7:01 · n=485
Advanced Metal Extractor9:56Middle 50%: 9:01–10:40 · n=490

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