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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 · 486 distinct matches · 107 players · 59% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 553 · 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 486 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 3:31–7:00

    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 · 13 steps
    1. Tidal ×7for Suicide front
    2. Tidal
    3. Tidalfor Front
    4. Mex ×2
    5. NettleNettle
    6. Mex ×2
    7. Wind ×4
    8. Energy storage
    9. Wind ×12
    10. Energy storage
    11. Wind ×21
    12. Converter ×11
    13. Bot LabBot Labdone 9:45 · 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 (48%) · 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 · 55 steps
    1. Converter
    2. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    3. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 11:21 · typical 9:54
    4. Construction BotCon bot ×5
    5. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    6. Energy storage
    7. Wind
    8. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    9. Wind ×2
    10. Con turret
    11. Wind
    12. Con turret
    13. Wind ×2
    14. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    15. Wind ×6
    16. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 14:14
    17. Wind ×2
    18. Con turret
    19. Wind
    20. Converter
    21. Wind
    22. Converter
    23. Wind
    24. Converter
    25. Wind
    26. Converter
    27. Wind ×2
    28. Converter
    29. Wind ×2
    30. Converter
    31. Con turret
    32. Wind ×2
    33. Converter
    34. Wind ×2
    35. Converter
    36. Wind ×3
    37. Con turret
    38. Wind ×3
    39. CitadelAnti-nukenot finished by 15:00
    40. Wind ×2
    41. Converter
    42. Wind ×3
    43. Converter
    44. Wind
    45. Converter
    46. Wind ×3
    47. Converter
    48. Wind
    49. Converter ×2
    50. Wind
    51. Converter ×2
    52. Wind
    53. Converter
    54. Wind
    55. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labnot finished by 15:00

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is UsurpeR's (44 OS, 29/09/2026); 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 4:28 · in 31% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:44 · in 39% 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 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

553 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
7:0038434590
8:0047571240138
9:0057191965375
10:0069002780713
11:00840432701147
12:001035735791578
13:001262541961940
14:001497947632417
15:001768153183015
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

UsurpeR

43.7 OS · 29/09/2026

Open source match ↗

9 received units · includes a constructor
674 metal received · 130528 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:36Middle 50%: 3:31–7:00 · n=497
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:38 · n=501

Played most by

Viltrum45games of this buildTeaner38games of this buildUsurpeR27games of this buildzeus_on_god23games of this buildRogShotz20games of this build