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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 · 460 distinct matches · 100 players · 59% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 525 · 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 460 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 (44%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 7 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for unknown
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Naval NettleNaval Nettle
    4. Mex ×4
    5. Wind ×4
    6. Energy storage ×2
    7. Wind ×13
  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 (44%)

    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 · 132 steps
    1. Wind ×11
    2. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 7:04
    3. Construction VehicleCon vehicle ×2
    4. Con turret
    5. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    6. RoverScout ×4
    7. Wind
    8. RoverScout ×6
    9. Wind
    10. RoverScout ×5
    11. Wind
    12. RoverScout ×6
    13. Wind
    14. RoverScout ×3
    15. Wind
    16. RoverScout
    17. Con turret
    18. RoverScout
    19. Converter
    20. Wind
    21. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 11:22 · typical 9:56
    22. RoverScout
    23. Converter
    24. RoverScout
    25. Wind
    26. Converter
    27. RoverScout
    28. Wind
    29. Converter
    30. RoverScout ×2
    31. Wind
    32. Converter
    33. RoverScout
    34. Converter
    35. RoverScout
    36. Wind
    37. RoverScout
    38. Converter
    39. RoverScout
    40. Wind
    41. Converter
    42. RoverScout
    43. Converter
    44. Wind
    45. RoverScout
    46. Converter ×2
    47. RoverScout
    48. Wind
    49. RoverScout
    50. Converter
    51. RoverScout
    52. Wind
    53. Converter
    54. RoverScout
    55. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    56. Converter
    57. RoverScout
    58. Wind
    59. RoverScout
    60. Converter
    61. RoverScout
    62. Converter
    63. Wind
    64. RoverScout
    65. Con turret
    66. Converter
    67. RoverScout
    68. Wind
    69. RoverScout
    70. Converter
    71. RoverScout
    72. Wind
    73. RoverScout ×2
    74. Converter
    75. RoverScout
    76. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    77. RoverScout
    78. Wind
    79. Converter
    80. RoverScout
    81. Wind
    82. Converter
    83. RoverScout ×2
    84. Wind
    85. RoverScout ×2
    86. Converter
    87. RoverScout
    88. Wind
    89. RoverScout
    90. Converter
    91. RoverScout ×3
    92. Converter
    93. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    94. RoverScout
    95. Wind
    96. RoverScout ×2
    97. Converter
    98. RoverScout
    99. Wind
    100. RoverScout
    101. Converter
    102. RoverScout
    103. Wind
    104. RoverScout
    105. Converter
    106. RoverScout
    107. CitadelAnti-nukedone 14:51
    108. RoverScout
    109. Converter
    110. Wind
    111. Con turret ×2
    112. RoverScout
    113. Wind
    114. RoverScout ×2
    115. Wind
    116. RoverScout
    117. Wind
    118. Con turret
    119. RoverScout ×2
    120. Con turret
    121. Wind
    122. RoverScout
    123. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    124. Wind
    125. RoverScout
    126. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    127. RoverScout
    128. Wind
    129. RoverScout ×2
    130. Wind
    131. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labnot finished by 15:00
    132. Construction VehicleCon vehicle

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is yubiyubi's (43 OS, 01/09/2026); 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 38% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 5:02 · in 39% of games
  • Sharpshooter2 Sniper bot from Techfirst at 5:15 · 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

525 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027200
3:0081700
4:00151000
5:00223100
6:00298300
7:0038414650
8:0047391273148
9:0056922028380
10:0068692855722
11:00832233171188
12:001028636961616
13:001258342621962
14:001489648472448
15:001746053593031
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

yubiyubi

43.3 OS · 01/09/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
1346 metal received · 105294 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=473
Advanced Metal Extractor9:56Middle 50%: 9:01–10:39 · n=474

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