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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is NFX_Scurvy's (38 OS, 17/09/2026); 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 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

NFX_Scurvy

38.3 OS · 17/09/2026

Open source match ↗

1 received units · includes a constructor
284 metal received · 62957 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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