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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is haaven's (46 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

haaven

46.1 OS · 21/09/2026

Open source match ↗

3 received units · includes a constructor
67 metal received · 55789 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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