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Armada Pond build order · Supreme Isthmus

Economy-first Pond with Bot Lab and Tidal boosting for allies, sending units front and teching into Advanced Metal Extractor as usual.

#eco #team support · 297 distinct matches · 131 players · 15% of Armada Pond games · team won 46% of 304 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Bot Lab by 3:41

  1. Drop tidal and wind turbines fast to start boosting the fronts.
  2. Add mex and keep wind count above 10 for boost.
  3. Put down the bot lab and start pushing basic bots to front.
  4. Open a second bot lab and keep feeding units forward.
  5. Transition into T2 with an advanced mex and switch army to Tick/Pawn/Blitz.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 297 GAMES
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
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
    • Tidal Generator8Tidalfor allies
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    • Tidal Generator1Tidal
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 4 mex, 4 wind, 1 tidaldone ~3:38, middle half 3:12–5:00

    By 3:21 in all: 4 mex · 4 wind · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 7 steps
    1. Tidal ×9for Front
    2. Tidal
    3. Tidalfor Geo sea
    4. Mex ×4
    5. Wind ×8
    6. Energy storage
    7. Bot LabBot Labdone 4:10 · typical 3:38
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine2Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Bot2 Con bot

    Some games also: Lazarus (44%) · con turret (44%) · converter (34%)

    By 5:00 in all: 4 mex · 9 wind · 1 tidal · 1 converter · 1 energy storage · 1 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 9 steps
    1. TickTick
    2. Energy storage
    3. TickTick ×3
    4. Converter
    5. TickTick
    6. Converter
    7. TickTick ×2
    8. Converter
    9. TickTick ×2
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine28Wind
    • Energy Converter6Converter
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret

    Some games also: con bot (49%) · tick (42%) · pawn (34%) · eat Bot Lab (49%)

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 38 wind · 1 tidal · 9 converter · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 148 steps
    1. TickTick ×3
    2. Construction BotCon botfor Front
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Con turret
    5. TickTick ×6
    6. Wind
    7. TickTick ×8
    8. Wind
    9. TickTick ×7
    10. Wind
    11. TickTick ×3
    12. Wind
    13. TickTick ×3
    14. Wind
    15. TickTick ×3
    16. Wind
    17. TickTick ×2
    18. LazarusLazarusfor Front
    19. Wind
    20. LazarusLazarusfor Front
    21. Wind
    22. LazarusLazarusfor Front
    23. Wind
    24. LazarusLazarusfor Front
    25. Windfor Front
    26. Wind
    27. TickTick ×2
    28. Wind
    29. TickTick ×3
    30. Wind
    31. TickTick ×2
    32. Windfor Front
    33. TickTick
    34. Wind
    35. TickTick ×3
    36. Wind
    37. TickTick ×2
    38. Wind
    39. TickTick ×2
    40. Windfor Front
    41. TickTick
    42. Wind
    43. TickTick ×3
    44. Wind
    45. TickTick ×3
    46. Wind
    47. TickTick ×2
    48. Wind
    49. Construction BotCon bot
    50. Wind
    51. TickTick ×3
    52. Wind
    53. TickTick ×3
    54. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:39 · typical 9:03
    55. Wind
    56. TickTick ×3
    57. Wind
    58. TickTick ×3
    59. Wind
    60. TickTick
    61. Con turret
    62. TickTick ×5
    63. Wind
    64. TickTick
    65. Wind ×4
    66. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    67. Wind ×2
    68. TickTick ×2
    69. Wind
    70. Con turret
    71. TickTick ×15
    72. Wind
    73. TickTick ×2
    74. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    75. TickTick ×7
    76. Wind
    77. TickTick ×10
    78. Wind
    79. Construction BotCon bot
    80. TickTick
    81. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    82. TickTick
    83. Converter
    84. TickTick ×2
    85. Wind
    86. TickTick ×3
    87. Converter
    88. TickTick ×5
    89. Converter
    90. TickTick
    91. Wind
    92. TickTick ×3
    93. Converter
    94. TickTick
    95. Hovercraft PlatformHovercraft Platformdone 12:24
    96. TickTick
    97. Con turret
    98. TickTick ×2
    99. Wind
    100. TickTick
    101. Converter
    102. TickTick
    103. Con turret
    104. TickTick ×4
    105. Converter
    106. TickTick
    107. Wind
    108. Converter
    109. TickTick
    110. Converter
    111. TickTick
    112. Wind
    113. TickTick ×2
    114. Converter
    115. Wind
    116. CitadelAnti-nukedone 14:14
    117. TickTick
    118. Wind
    119. TickTick
    120. Converter
    121. TickTick
    122. Wind ×2
    123. TickTick
    124. Converter
    125. TickTick
    126. Wind ×4
    127. TickTick
    128. Hovercraft PlatformEat Hovercraft Platformreclaimed for its metal
    129. TickTick ×2
    130. Wind
    131. TickTick ×2
    132. Wind
    133. TickTick
    134. TracerTracer
    135. Wind
    136. TickTick ×2
    137. Wind
    138. TickTick
    139. Wind
    140. TickTick ×4
    141. Wind
    142. TickTick ×2
    143. Construction BotCon bot
    144. Fusion ReactorFusionnot finished by 15:00
    145. Wind
    146. TickTick ×2
    147. Con turret
    148. TickTick

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Ubilosis's (30 OS, 18/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Tidal Generator8 Tidal to Suicide front or Frontfirst at 0:11 · in 94% of games

You get

  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 7:36 · in 84% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build, running totals by minute

Metal produced

010k20k30k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Enemy metal destroyed

01k2k3k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

02k4k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

304 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0026800
3:0079900
4:00147300
5:00218500
6:00299500
7:003910210
8:004948170117
9:006223379316
10:007705611552
11:009645842855
12:001205211691289
13:001453815531876
14:001742721342535
15:002018825993249
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

This is the role's baseline line, winning under half its games with mid economy and modest kills versus losses by 15:00.

  • + Reaches T2 constructor by 8:09 in 91% of games, a reliable tempo.
  • − Team wins only 46% of games, no edge over the role's norm.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

Ubilosis

30.1 OS · 18/09/2026

Open source match ↗

1 received units · includes a constructor
886 metal received · 56878 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab3:38Middle 50%: 3:12–5:00 · n=277
Advanced Metal Extractor9:03Middle 50%: 7:58–10:04 · n=261

Played most by

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