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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 · 12 steps
    1. Tidal ×9for Suicide front
    2. Wind ×3for Air
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×4for Tech
    5. Converter ×2for Tech
    6. Energy storagefor Tech
    7. Windfor Tech
    8. Converterfor Tech
    9. Wind ×2for Tech
    10. Converter ×2for Tech
    11. Wind ×3for Tech
    12. Bot LabBot Labfor Techdone 5:29 · 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 · 127 steps
    1. CrossbowCrossbow
    2. Construction BotCon bot ×2for Tech
    3. TickTick ×5
    4. CrossbowCrossbowfor Tech
    5. LazarusLazarus
    6. TickTick
    7. Con turretfor Tech
    8. TickTick ×9
    9. LazarusLazarus
    10. TickTick ×3
    11. Windfor Tech
    12. TickTick
    13. Metal storagefor Tech
    14. TickTick ×2
    15. Windfor Tech
    16. TickTick
    17. Windfor Tech
    18. TickTick ×2
    19. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Techdone 8:57 · typical 9:56
    20. TickTick
    21. Wind
    22. TickTick
    23. Con turretfor Tech
    24. TickTick ×4
    25. Wind ×2for Tech
    26. Construction BotCon bot
    27. LazarusLazarus
    28. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Tech
    29. Windfor Tech
    30. Con turretfor Tech
    31. Windfor Tech
    32. LazarusLazarus
    33. Windfor Tech
    34. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Tech
    35. Windfor Tech
    36. TickTick ×3
    37. Windfor Tech
    38. TickTick ×4
    39. Windfor Tech
    40. TickTick ×2
    41. Windfor Tech
    42. TickTick ×3
    43. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Tech
    44. TickTick ×3
    45. Converterfor Tech
    46. TickTick
    47. Con turretfor Tech
    48. Construction BotCon botfor Tech
    49. Converterfor Tech
    50. Construction BotCon botfor Tech
    51. NettleNettlefor Tech
    52. Converterfor Tech
    53. Wind ×2for Tech
    54. TickTick
    55. Windfor Tech
    56. Con turretfor Tech
    57. TickTick
    58. Windfor Tech
    59. Converterfor Tech
    60. TickTick
    61. Windfor Tech
    62. LazarusLazarus
    63. Converterfor Tech
    64. Construction BotCon botfor Tech
    65. Windfor Tech
    66. Con turretfor Tech
    67. LazarusLazarus
    68. Wind ×3for Tech
    69. TickTick
    70. Wind ×2for Tech
    71. TickTick ×2
    72. Windfor Tech
    73. Fusion ReactorFusionfor Techdone 13:05
    74. Converterfor Tech
    75. TickTick
    76. Wind ×2for Tech
    77. TickTick
    78. Radar TowerRadar Towerfor Tech
    79. Windfor Tech
    80. TickTick
    81. Windfor Tech
    82. TickTick
    83. Wind ×4for Tech
    84. TickTick
    85. Converterfor Tech
    86. TickTick
    87. Windfor Tech
    88. TickTick
    89. Windfor Tech
    90. TickTick
    91. Converterfor Tech
    92. TickTick
    93. Windfor Tech
    94. TickTick
    95. Wind ×2for Tech
    96. Converterfor Tech
    97. TickTick
    98. Windfor Tech
    99. ArmageddonArmageddonfor Technot finished by 15:00
    100. TickTick
    101. Windfor Tech
    102. Converter ×2for Tech
    103. TickTick
    104. Wind ×2for Tech
    105. TickTick
    106. Windfor Tech
    107. TickTick
    108. Converterfor Tech
    109. Windfor Tech
    110. TickTick
    111. Con turretfor Tech
    112. Windfor Tech
    113. TickTickfor Tech
    114. Windfor Tech
    115. Energy storagefor Tech
    116. TickTickfor Tech
    117. Converterfor Tech
    118. TickTickfor Tech
    119. Windfor Tech
    120. JaguarJaguarfor Tech
    121. Windfor Tech
    122. Converterfor Tech
    123. Wind ×2for Tech
    124. TickTickfor Tech
    125. Wind ×2for Tech
    126. PawnPawnfor Tech
    127. AmbassadorAmbassadorfor Techdone 14:19

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is armjanus's (41 OS, 21/09/2026); 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

armjanus

40.7 OS · 21/09/2026

Open source match ↗

130 received units · includes a constructor
903 metal received · 40155 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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