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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 · 4 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Mex ×4
    3. Wind ×4
    4. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:04 · 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 · 186 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. Wind ×3
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Wind ×2
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. LazarusLazarus
    7. Wind
    8. Energy storage
    9. LazarusLazarus
    10. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    11. Wind
    12. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    13. Wind
    14. LazarusLazarus
    15. Wind ×2
    16. LazarusLazarus
    17. Converter
    18. Wind ×2
    19. LazarusLazarus
    20. Wind ×2
    21. Converter
    22. Wind ×2
    23. Construction BotCon bot
    24. Converter
    25. Wind ×2
    26. Converter
    27. Wind ×4
    28. Con turret
    29. Converter
    30. RocketeerRocketeerfor Front
    31. Wind ×2
    32. RocketeerRocketeer ×2for Front
    33. Converter
    34. Con turret
    35. Wind ×2
    36. RocketeerRocketeerfor Front
    37. Wind
    38. RocketeerRocketeerfor Front
    39. Wind
    40. Converter
    41. RocketeerRocketeerfor Front
    42. Wind ×2
    43. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantnot finished by 15:00
    44. RocketeerRocketeerfor Front
    45. Converter
    46. Wind ×2
    47. RocketeerRocketeerfor Front
    48. RocketeerRocketeer
    49. Wind ×2
    50. RocketeerRocketeerfor Front
    51. Converter
    52. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 7:28
    53. Wind ×2
    54. Con turret
    55. Wind ×2
    56. Converter
    57. Con turret
    58. Wind
    59. BlitzBlitz
    60. Wind
    61. BlitzBlitz ×2
    62. Converter
    63. Wind
    64. BlitzBlitz
    65. Wind
    66. BlitzBlitz ×3
    67. Wind
    68. BlitzBlitz
    69. Converter
    70. Wind
    71. BlitzBlitz
    72. Wind
    73. BlitzBlitz
    74. Wind
    75. BlitzBlitz
    76. Converter
    77. BlitzBlitz
    78. Wind ×2
    79. BlitzBlitz ×2
    80. Wind
    81. Converter
    82. Wind
    83. BlitzBlitz
    84. Wind
    85. BlitzBlitz
    86. Wind
    87. BlitzBlitz
    88. Converter
    89. Wind
    90. BlitzBlitz
    91. Wind
    92. BlitzBlitz
    93. Wind
    94. Converter
    95. BlitzBlitz ×2
    96. Wind
    97. BlitzBlitz
    98. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:01 · typical 9:56
    99. BlitzBlitz
    100. Wind
    101. Converter
    102. Wind ×2
    103. Converter
    104. Wind ×3
    105. BlitzBlitz
    106. Converter
    107. Wind
    108. BlitzBlitz
    109. Wind
    110. BlitzBlitz
    111. Wind
    112. BlitzBlitz
    113. Wind
    114. BlitzBlitz
    115. Wind
    116. BlitzBlitz
    117. Converter
    118. Wind ×2
    119. BlitzBlitz
    120. Wind
    121. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    122. Wind
    123. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    124. Wind
    125. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    126. Converter
    127. Wind ×3
    128. Converter
    129. BlitzBlitz
    130. Wind
    131. BlitzBlitz
    132. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    133. BlitzBlitz
    134. Wind
    135. Converter
    136. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 14:15
    137. Wind ×3
    138. Converter
    139. Wind ×2
    140. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    141. Converter
    142. Wind ×4
    143. Converter
    144. Wind ×2
    145. Energy storage
    146. Wind
    147. Converter
    148. Wind
    149. Con turret
    150. Wind ×2
    151. Con turret
    152. CitadelAnti-nukedone 13:48
    153. Wind
    154. Con turret
    155. Converter
    156. Wind
    157. Con turret
    158. Wind
    159. RocketeerRocketeerfor Suicide front
    160. Wind
    161. Converter
    162. Wind ×3
    163. Converter
    164. Wind ×4
    165. Converter
    166. TracerTracer
    167. Wind ×3
    168. Converter
    169. Wind
    170. Fusion ReactorFusion
    171. Wind
    172. Con turret
    173. Wind
    174. Con turret
    175. Converter
    176. Wind
    177. Con turret
    178. Wind
    179. Con turret
    180. Wind
    181. Con turret
    182. Wind
    183. Converter
    184. Wind
    185. Con turret
    186. Wind ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Erilium's (48 OS, 22/09/2026); 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

Erilium

47.9 OS · 22/09/2026

Open source match ↗

1 received units · includes a constructor
159 metal received · 17433 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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