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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 · 491 distinct matches · 109 players · 59% of Armada Pond games · team won 49% of 559 · 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 491 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 ~5:35, middle half 3:31–7:01

    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 · 11 steps
    1. Tidal ×9
    2. Tidalfor Geo
    3. Tidal ×3
    4. Mex ×4
    5. Energy storage
    6. Con turret
    7. Wind ×6
    8. SentrySentry
    9. Wind
    10. Converter ×2
    11. Bot LabBot Labdone 5:00 · typical 5:35
  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 · 192 steps
    1. PawnPawn ×6
    2. Con turret
    3. PawnPawn
    4. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×5
    5. PawnPawn
    6. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    7. PawnPawn
    8. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    9. PawnPawn
    10. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. SentrySentry
    13. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    14. Wind ×6
    15. Converter
    16. Wind ×4
    17. Converter
    18. Wind ×3
    19. SentrySentry
    20. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    21. Wind
    22. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    23. Converter
    24. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    25. Wind ×2
    26. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    27. Wind
    28. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    29. Converter
    30. Wind ×3
    31. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    32. Wind ×3
    33. SentrySentry
    34. Wind ×4
    35. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:29 · typical 9:54
    36. Wind
    37. Converter
    38. Bot LabBot Labdone 8:32
    39. Converter
    40. TickTick
    41. Wind
    42. PawnPawn
    43. Converter
    44. Wind
    45. TickTick
    46. PawnPawn
    47. Wind
    48. Converter
    49. TickTick
    50. Wind ×2
    51. PawnPawn
    52. Wind
    53. TickTick
    54. PawnPawn
    55. Converter
    56. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    57. TickTick
    58. Wind ×2
    59. PawnPawn
    60. Wind
    61. Converter
    62. Wind
    63. TickTick
    64. Wind
    65. PawnPawn
    66. Wind
    67. TickTick
    68. Wind
    69. PawnPawn
    70. Wind
    71. TickTick
    72. PawnPawn
    73. Wind
    74. TickTick
    75. Wind ×2
    76. PawnPawn
    77. TickTick
    78. Wind
    79. PawnPawn
    80. Wind ×2
    81. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    82. TickTick
    83. PawnPawn
    84. TickTick
    85. PawnPawn
    86. TickTick
    87. PawnPawn
    88. Con turret
    89. TickTick
    90. Wind
    91. PawnPawn
    92. Wind
    93. TickTick
    94. Wind ×2
    95. PawnPawn
    96. TickTick
    97. Wind ×2
    98. PawnPawn
    99. Wind
    100. TickTick
    101. Wind
    102. PawnPawn
    103. Wind ×2
    104. TickTick
    105. Wind
    106. PawnPawn
    107. Wind ×2
    108. TickTick
    109. Wind
    110. PawnPawn
    111. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    112. TickTick
    113. Wind
    114. PawnPawn
    115. Wind
    116. Con turret
    117. Wind
    118. TickTick
    119. Wind ×2
    120. PawnPawn
    121. Wind ×2
    122. TickTick
    123. Wind
    124. PawnPawn
    125. Wind ×2
    126. TickTick
    127. Wind ×2
    128. PawnPawn
    129. TickTick
    130. Wind
    131. PawnPawn
    132. Wind
    133. TickTick
    134. PawnPawn
    135. Wind
    136. TickTick
    137. PawnPawn
    138. Wind
    139. TickTick
    140. PawnPawn
    141. Wind
    142. TickTick
    143. PawnPawn
    144. TickTick
    145. Wind
    146. PawnPawn
    147. TickTick
    148. Con turret
    149. PawnPawn
    150. Con turret
    151. Wind
    152. TickTick
    153. PawnPawn
    154. TickTick
    155. Wind
    156. PawnPawn
    157. TickTick
    158. Wind
    159. PawnPawn
    160. TickTick
    161. Wind
    162. PawnPawn
    163. TickTick
    164. Wind
    165. PawnPawn
    166. TickTick
    167. PawnPawn
    168. TickTick
    169. PawnPawn
    170. Con turret
    171. TickTick
    172. PawnPawn
    173. Con turret
    174. TickTick
    175. PawnPawn
    176. Con turret
    177. TickTick
    178. PawnPawn
    179. Con turret
    180. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 14:35
    181. TickTick
    182. PawnPawn
    183. TickTick
    184. PawnPawn
    185. ChainsawChainsaw
    186. TickTick
    187. PawnPawn
    188. TickTick
    189. PawnPawn
    190. TickTick
    191. Converter ×2
    192. PawnPawn

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is TrollHardGoPro's (38 OS, 19/09/2026); 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 8:17 · 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

559 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027300
3:0082000
4:00151000
5:00223100
6:00298400
7:0038504540
8:0047571237138
9:0057191963370
10:0069182763714
11:00841732701149
12:001038635791578
13:001269541841940
14:001506647452417
15:001770253143015
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

TrollHardGoPro

38.0 OS · 19/09/2026

Open source match ↗

2 received units · includes a constructor
17 metal received · 32620 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:35Middle 50%: 3:31–7:01 · n=502
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:38 · n=507

Played most by

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