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Armada Pond build order · Supreme Isthmus

Economy-first Pond play: boost front via wind or tidal, Bot Lab around 5:36 then Advanced Metal Extractor, sending T1 units like Tick, Pawn and Blitz forward to help hold the middle until T2 arrives.

#eco #team support · 522 distinct matches · 111 players · 60% of Armada Pond games · team won 49% of 590 · 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 522 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 ~5:35, middle half 3:32–7:02

    Some games also: converter (45%)

    By 5:07 in all: 4 mex · 10 wind · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage

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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is KOT_'s (39 OS, 03/10/2026); 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

  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:43 · in 39% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 5:03 · in 40% of games
  • Sharpshooter2 Sniper bot from Techfirst at 5:16 · in 41% 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

590 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027400
3:0082100
4:00151000
5:00223100
6:00298500
7:0038464470
8:0047591226134
9:0057111957367
10:0069042754708
11:00841632671152
12:001038835741577
13:001270041761944
14:001505247162454
15:001770152843046
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

KOT_

38.6 OS · 03/10/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
979 metal received · 23119 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:35Middle 50%: 3:32–7:02 · n=530
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:41 · n=535

Played most by

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