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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 · 8 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Mex ×3
    3. Wind ×4
    4. Energy storage
    5. Wind ×4
    6. Solar
    7. Mex
    8. Bot LabBot Labnot finished by 15:00 · 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 · 85 steps
    1. Bot LabBot Labdone 4:11
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. LazarusLazarus
    4. Con turret
    5. LazarusLazarus ×3
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Con turret
    8. Wind ×20
    9. Converter
    10. Wind ×2
    11. SentrySentry
    12. Converter
    13. Wind
    14. Converter
    15. SentrySentry
    16. Wind
    17. Converter
    18. Wind
    19. SentrySentry
    20. Wind
    21. Converter
    22. Wind
    23. Converter
    24. Wind ×2
    25. SentrySentry
    26. Converter
    27. Wind
    28. SentrySentry
    29. Wind
    30. Converter
    31. SentrySentry
    32. Converter
    33. Wind
    34. Converter
    35. SentrySentry
    36. Wind ×3
    37. Converter
    38. Wind
    39. SentrySentry
    40. Wind
    41. Converter
    42. Wind
    43. Con turret
    44. Bot LabBot Labdone 9:20
    45. Wind ×4
    46. SentrySentry
    47. Wind ×2
    48. TickTick ×2
    49. Wind
    50. TickTick ×2
    51. SentrySentry
    52. TickTick ×3
    53. Con turret
    54. TickTick ×2
    55. SentrySentry
    56. TickTick ×2
    57. Con turret
    58. TickTick ×2
    59. Con turret
    60. TickTick ×31
    61. SentrySentry
    62. TickTick ×11
    63. SentrySentry
    64. TickTick ×7
    65. PawnPawn
    66. SentrySentry
    67. PawnPawn ×9
    68. SentrySentry
    69. PawnPawn ×7
    70. SentrySentry
    71. PawnPawn ×2
    72. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    73. PawnPawn
    74. Mex
    75. PawnPawn ×4
    76. SentrySentry
    77. PawnPawn ×4
    78. SentrySentry
    79. PawnPawn
    80. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    81. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 14:08 · typical 9:54
    82. Construction BotCon bot
    83. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    84. TickTick ×2
    85. PawnPawn

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Zippo9's (37 OS, 16/08/2026); 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 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

Zippo9

37.3 OS · 16/08/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
82 metal received · 44874 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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