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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 · 492 distinct matches · 109 players · 60% of Armada Pond games · team won 49% of 560 · 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 492 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 3:31–7:01

    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 · 5 steps
    1. Tidal ×11
    2. SentrySentry
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Energy storage
    5. Bot LabBot Labdone 4:20 · 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 (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 · 98 steps
    1. Converter ×4
    2. Construction BotCon botfor Geo sea
    3. Construction BotCon bot ×5
    4. Construction BotCon botfor Geo sea
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Wind ×6
    7. Energy storage
    8. Wind
    9. Energy storage
    10. BeamerBeamer
    11. Bot LabBot Labdone 6:31
    12. PawnPawn
    13. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:39 · typical 9:54
    14. PawnPawn ×5
    15. Mexfor Geo sea
    16. LazarusLazarus
    17. Mexfor Geo sea
    18. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    19. Mexfor Geo sea
    20. PawnPawn
    21. LazarusLazarus
    22. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    23. LazarusLazarus
    24. Wind
    25. LazarusLazarus
    26. Mexfor Geo sea
    27. Wind ×4
    28. PawnPawn
    29. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    30. Wind ×2
    31. PawnPawn
    32. ThugThug
    33. Converter
    34. Wind
    35. PawnPawn
    36. Wind ×2
    37. Converter
    38. PawnPawn
    39. Con turret
    40. Bot LabBot Labdone 10:10
    41. PawnPawn
    42. Con turret
    43. Wind ×2
    44. PawnPawn
    45. Energy storagefor Front
    46. Pit BullPit Bull
    47. PawnPawn
    48. Wind ×2
    49. PawnPawn
    50. Wind
    51. Bot LabBot Labfor Frontdone 10:25
    52. Wind ×3
    53. PawnPawn
    54. Wind ×2
    55. PawnPawn
    56. Wind
    57. PawnPawn
    58. Converter
    59. Wind ×2
    60. PawnPawn
    61. Wind
    62. JaguarJaguar
    63. Converter
    64. Wind
    65. PawnPawn ×2
    66. Wind ×2
    67. PawnPawn
    68. Wind
    69. Converter
    70. PawnPawn
    71. Converter
    72. PawnPawn
    73. Wind ×2
    74. PawnPawn ×2
    75. Wind
    76. PawnPawn
    77. Converter
    78. PawnPawn ×2
    79. Wind
    80. PawnPawn
    81. Converter
    82. Wind
    83. PawnPawn ×2
    84. Wind ×3
    85. PawnPawn
    86. Wind
    87. LazarusLazarus
    88. Wind
    89. Con turret
    90. PawnPawn
    91. Wind
    92. Con turret
    93. Wind
    94. PawnPawn
    95. Converter
    96. Construction BotCon bot
    97. Bot LabBot Labdone 12:07
    98. Converter

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is KingBenjai's (46 OS, 01/10/2026); 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 93% 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

560 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
6:00298500
7:0038494570
8:0047571239134
9:0057151964370
10:0069142772714
11:00841732701152
12:001038035821584
13:001269541901941
14:001506347542420
15:001770153163019
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

KingBenjai

46.3 OS · 01/10/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
401 metal received · 45748 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:36Middle 50%: 3:31–7:01 · n=503
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:38 · n=508

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