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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [Cookie]Baby_Evis's (42 OS, 30/08/2026); 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

[Cookie]Baby_Evis

41.7 OS · 30/08/2026

Open source match ↗

1 received units · includes a constructor
4 metal received · 26526 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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