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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 · 1 step
    1. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:20 · 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 · 126 steps
    1. TickTick
    2. LazarusLazarus
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. SentrySentry
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Mex
    7. CenturionCenturion
    8. Mex
    9. BeamerBeamer
    10. Construction BotCon bot
    11. Mex
    12. BeamerBeamer
    13. LazarusLazarus
    14. BeamerBeamer
    15. Mex
    16. Construction BotCon bot
    17. Wind
    18. BeamerBeamer
    19. CenturionCenturion
    20. Wind
    21. Con turret
    22. BeamerBeamer
    23. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    24. BeamerBeamer
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Wind
    27. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    28. RocketeerRocketeer
    29. Wind
    30. RocketeerRocketeer
    31. Mex
    32. Energy storage
    33. LazarusLazarus
    34. Wind
    35. BeamerBeamer
    36. CenturionCenturion
    37. Wind ×2
    38. BeamerBeamer
    39. RocketeerRocketeer
    40. Wind
    41. BeamerBeamer
    42. RocketeerRocketeer
    43. Wind ×2
    44. BeamerBeamer
    45. LazarusLazarus
    46. Wind
    47. CenturionCenturion
    48. RocketeerRocketeer
    49. Wind
    50. BeamerBeamer
    51. Wind
    52. ThugThug
    53. RocketeerRocketeer
    54. BeamerBeamer
    55. Wind
    56. BeamerBeamer
    57. RocketeerRocketeer
    58. Wind
    59. RocketeerRocketeer
    60. LazarusLazarus
    61. CenturionCenturion
    62. Wind
    63. ThugThug
    64. RocketeerRocketeer
    65. Wind
    66. BeamerBeamer
    67. RocketeerRocketeer
    68. Wind
    69. LazarusLazarus
    70. Wind
    71. CenturionCenturion
    72. Wind
    73. CenturionCenturion
    74. RocketeerRocketeer
    75. Wind
    76. BeamerBeamer
    77. RocketeerRocketeer
    78. LazarusLazarus
    79. Wind
    80. ThugThug
    81. CenturionCenturion
    82. Wind
    83. RocketeerRocketeer
    84. ThugThug
    85. Wind
    86. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    87. Wind
    88. BeamerBeamer
    89. LazarusLazarus
    90. Wind
    91. CenturionCenturion
    92. Wind
    93. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    94. Wind
    95. RocketeerRocketeer
    96. Wind
    97. LazarusLazarus
    98. Wind ×2
    99. CenturionCenturion
    100. Wind
    101. Mex
    102. Wind
    103. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    104. Wind
    105. Mex
    106. LazarusLazarus
    107. Wind
    108. CenturionCenturion
    109. Mex
    110. Wind
    111. RocketeerRocketeer
    112. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    113. RocketeerRocketeer
    114. LazarusLazarus
    115. BeamerBeamer
    116. CenturionCenturion
    117. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    118. LazarusLazarus
    119. NettleNettle
    120. CenturionCenturion
    121. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    122. SentrySentry
    123. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    124. LazarusLazarus
    125. CenturionCenturion ×3
    126. RocketeerRocketeer ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Soliloqueur's (42 OS, 14/09/2026); 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

Soliloqueur

42.2 OS · 14/09/2026

Open source match ↗

31 received units · includes a constructor
1130 metal received · 26185 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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