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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 · 521 distinct matches · 111 players · 60% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 589 · 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 521 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 · 8 steps
    1. Windfor Suicide front
    2. Solar ×3for Suicide front
    3. Wind ×6for Front
    4. Mex ×4
    5. Wind ×2
    6. Energy storage ×2for Suicide front
    7. Wind ×2
    8. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:25 · 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 · 110 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. LazarusLazarus
    3. Wind
    4. Con turret
    5. Wind ×5
    6. Con turret
    7. Wind ×4
    8. Energy storage
    9. Wind ×2
    10. Converter ×6
    11. Wind ×10
    12. Solar ×2
    13. Bot LabBot Labdone 8:10
    14. TickTick ×9
    15. Con turret
    16. TickTick ×4
    17. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:37 · typical 9:54
    18. TickTick ×5
    19. Wind
    20. TickTick ×5
    21. Wind ×2
    22. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    23. Wind ×2
    24. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    25. Wind ×6
    26. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    27. Wind ×3
    28. TickTick
    29. Wind
    30. TickTick ×2
    31. Wind
    32. TickTick ×5
    33. Wind
    34. TickTick ×2
    35. Wind
    36. TickTick
    37. Wind
    38. TickTick
    39. Wind
    40. TickTick
    41. Wind
    42. TickTick ×3
    43. Wind
    44. TickTick ×2
    45. Wind
    46. TickTick ×3
    47. Wind
    48. TickTick ×3
    49. Wind
    50. TickTick
    51. Wind
    52. TickTick
    53. Wind
    54. TickTick ×8
    55. Wind
    56. TickTick
    57. Wind
    58. TickTick
    59. Wind
    60. TickTick
    61. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    62. Wind
    63. TickTick
    64. Wind
    65. TickTick
    66. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 13:37
    67. Con turret
    68. TickTick ×2
    69. Con turret
    70. TickTick ×2
    71. Con turret
    72. TickTick
    73. Con turret
    74. Wind
    75. TickTick
    76. Wind
    77. TickTick ×2
    78. Wind
    79. PlatypusPlatypus
    80. TickTick
    81. Wind
    82. TickTick
    83. PlatypusPlatypus
    84. TickTick
    85. Wind
    86. PlatypusPlatypus
    87. TickTick
    88. Wind
    89. PlatypusPlatypus
    90. TickTick ×2
    91. Wind
    92. PlatypusPlatypus
    93. TickTick
    94. Wind
    95. RattlesnakeRattlesnakenot finished by 15:00
    96. PlatypusPlatypus
    97. TickTick
    98. Wind
    99. Fortification WallFortification Wall ×4
    100. Wind
    101. Fortification WallFortification Wall
    102. SmugglerJammer bot
    103. CompassRadar bot
    104. TickTick
    105. Wind
    106. SmugglerJammer bot
    107. Wind
    108. TickTick
    109. PlatypusPlatypus
    110. TickTick ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is ComDelivery's (35 OS, 28/08/2026); 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

  • 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

589 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027400
3:0082100
4:00150900
5:00223100
6:00298500
7:0038484420
8:0047601229130
9:0057111963366
10:0069072754711
11:00841732671155
12:001038935771578
13:001270341801945
14:001506047202460
15:001770252893046
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

ComDelivery

35.0 OS · 28/08/2026

Open source match ↗

3 received units · includes a constructor
214 metal received · 49510 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=534

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