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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 · 473 distinct matches · 104 players · 60% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 541 · 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 473 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 ~5:37, middle half 3:31–7:01

    Some games also: converter (45%)

    By 5:08 in all: 4 mex · 10 wind · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 5 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×3
    3. Converter
    4. Mex ×4
    5. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:18 · typical 5:37
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine16Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret
    • Construction Bot2 Con bot

    Some games also: tick (50%) · Lazarus (48%) · converter (44%)

    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 · 123 steps
    1. LazarusLazarus
    2. Wind ×2
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Wind ×4
    5. Energy storage ×2
    6. Wind ×3
    7. Con turret
    8. Wind
    9. Converter
    10. Windfor Air
    11. Converter
    12. Windfor Air
    13. Converter
    14. Wind
    15. Converter
    16. Wind
    17. Converter
    18. Wind
    19. Converter
    20. Wind
    21. Converter
    22. Wind
    23. Converter
    24. Wind ×5
    25. AnemoneAnemone
    26. Wind ×3
    27. Con turret
    28. AnemoneAnemone
    29. Wind ×3
    30. ShipyardShipyardnot finished by 15:00
    31. Bot LabBot Labdone 8:07
    32. AnemoneAnemone
    33. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:21 · typical 9:56
    34. Wind ×4
    35. PawnPawn
    36. Wind
    37. PawnPawn
    38. Wind
    39. PawnPawn
    40. ShipyardShipyarddone 8:55
    41. Wind
    42. PawnPawn ×5
    43. EelSubmarinefor Geo seadone 9:21
    44. PawnPawn ×4
    45. TickTick ×3
    46. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    47. TickTick ×5
    48. EllysawFrigatefor Geo sea
    49. TickTick ×5
    50. EllysawFrigate
    51. TickTick
    52. EllysawFrigatefor Geo sea
    53. TickTick
    54. EllysawFrigatefor Geo sea
    55. TickTick ×2
    56. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    57. TickTick ×2
    58. Grim ReaperGrim Reaper
    59. TickTick ×33
    60. Construction BotCon bot
    61. TickTick ×2
    62. Bot LabBot Labdone 12:33
    63. TickTick
    64. Con turret
    65. TickTick ×2
    66. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    67. Con turret
    68. TickTick
    69. PawnPawn
    70. TickTick ×2
    71. Con turret
    72. TickTick ×2
    73. Con turret
    74. TickTick ×2
    75. PawnPawn ×5
    76. Wind
    77. PawnPawn ×2
    78. Wind ×2
    79. PawnPawn ×2
    80. Wind
    81. PawnPawn
    82. Wind
    83. PawnPawn
    84. Wind
    85. PawnPawn ×2
    86. Wind ×2
    87. PawnPawn ×3
    88. Wind
    89. PawnPawn
    90. Wind ×2
    91. PawnPawn ×2
    92. Fusion ReactorFusionnot finished by 15:00
    93. Wind
    94. PawnPawn
    95. Wind
    96. PawnPawn ×4
    97. Wind
    98. PawnPawn ×2
    99. Wind
    100. PawnPawn ×2
    101. Wind
    102. PawnPawn ×4
    103. Wind ×2
    104. PawnPawn ×4
    105. Wind
    106. PawnPawn
    107. Wind
    108. PawnPawn ×3
    109. Wind
    110. PawnPawn ×2
    111. Wind
    112. PawnPawn ×2
    113. Wind
    114. PawnPawn ×3
    115. Wind
    116. PawnPawn
    117. Wind
    118. PawnPawn ×2
    119. Wind
    120. PawnPawn ×2
    121. Wind
    122. PawnPawn ×2
    123. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Alphacure's (37 OS, 27/09/2026); 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 4:32 · in 31% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:43 · in 39% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 5:02 · 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 8:18 · 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

541 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027200
3:0081700
4:00150700
5:00223100
6:00298300
7:0038434600
8:0047501269147
9:0056992025378
10:0068742840714
11:00833732981178
12:001029136611603
13:001261442021959
14:001493647782448
15:001751853403029
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

Alphacure

36.5 OS · 27/09/2026

Open source match ↗

3 received units · includes a constructor
1101 metal received · 181002 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:37Middle 50%: 3:31–7:01 · n=485
Advanced Metal Extractor9:56Middle 50%: 9:01–10:40 · n=490

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