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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 · 11 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×3
    5. Energy storage
    6. Wind ×2
    7. Energy storage
    8. Wind ×13
    9. SmugglerJammer bot
    10. CompassRadar bot
    11. Bot LabBot Labdone 6:55 · 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 · 219 steps
    1. Energy storage
    2. TickTick ×3
    3. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:51 · typical 9:56
    4. TickTick ×5
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×7
    6. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    7. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    8. TickTick
    9. LazarusLazarus ×3
    10. TickTick ×3
    11. Converter
    12. TickTick ×2
    13. Wind
    14. TickTick ×4
    15. Converter
    16. TickTick
    17. Wind
    18. TickTick ×3
    19. Wind
    20. TickTick
    21. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    22. TickTick ×2
    23. Converter
    24. TickTick
    25. Wind
    26. TickTick ×3
    27. Wind
    28. TickTick ×3
    29. Wind
    30. TickTick
    31. Converter
    32. TickTick ×2
    33. Wind
    34. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    35. TickTick ×3
    36. Wind
    37. TickTick ×2
    38. Converter
    39. Wind
    40. TickTick ×4
    41. Wind
    42. TickTick ×2
    43. Wind
    44. TickTick
    45. Converter
    46. TickTick
    47. BlitzBlitz
    48. TickTick
    49. BlitzBlitz
    50. Wind
    51. TickTick
    52. BlitzBlitz
    53. TickTick
    54. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    55. BlitzBlitz
    56. TickTick
    57. Wind
    58. TickTick
    59. Con turret
    60. BlitzBlitz
    61. TickTick
    62. Converter
    63. TickTick ×2
    64. Wind
    65. BlitzBlitz
    66. TickTick
    67. Con turret
    68. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    69. TickTick
    70. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    71. Wind
    72. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 13:30
    73. TickTick
    74. Con turret
    75. BlitzBlitz
    76. Converter
    77. Con turret
    78. Wind
    79. Con turret
    80. TickTick
    81. BlitzBlitz ×2
    82. TickTick
    83. BlitzBlitz
    84. Wind
    85. BlitzBlitz ×2
    86. ArbalestArbalest
    87. TickTick
    88. Converter
    89. BlitzBlitz
    90. Wind
    91. Con turret
    92. BlitzBlitz
    93. TickTick
    94. BlitzBlitz
    95. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    96. Wind
    97. TickTick
    98. BlitzBlitz
    99. Wind
    100. BlitzBlitz ×3
    101. TickTick
    102. Converter
    103. Wind
    104. Con turret
    105. BlitzBlitz ×2
    106. TickTick
    107. BlitzBlitz
    108. TickTick
    109. Wind
    110. BlitzBlitz
    111. TickTick
    112. BlitzBlitz
    113. TickTick
    114. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    115. TickTick
    116. Wind
    117. TickTick
    118. Con turret
    119. BlitzBlitz
    120. Converter
    121. TickTick
    122. BlitzBlitz
    123. Wind
    124. BlitzBlitz
    125. TickTick
    126. BlitzBlitz
    127. TickTick
    128. BlitzBlitz
    129. TickTick
    130. ChainsawChainsaw
    131. Con turret
    132. BlitzBlitz
    133. Wind
    134. TickTick
    135. BlitzBlitz
    136. TickTick
    137. BlitzBlitz
    138. TickTick
    139. Converter
    140. TracerTracer
    141. Con turret
    142. BlitzBlitz
    143. TickTick
    144. Wind
    145. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    146. TickTick
    147. Con turret
    148. TickTick
    149. BlitzBlitz
    150. Wind
    151. TickTick
    152. BlitzBlitz
    153. TickTick
    154. Con turret
    155. BlitzBlitz
    156. TickTick
    157. T2 converter
    158. BlitzBlitz
    159. TickTick
    160. Wind
    161. Con turret
    162. Converter
    163. BlitzBlitz
    164. TickTick
    165. BlitzBlitz
    166. TickTick
    167. BlitzBlitz
    168. TickTick
    169. Wind
    170. BlitzBlitz
    171. TickTick
    172. BlitzBlitz
    173. TickTick
    174. BeamerBeamer
    175. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    176. TickTick ×2
    177. Wind
    178. BeamerBeamer
    179. Sneaky PeteSneaky Pete
    180. Converter
    181. TickTick
    182. TracerTracer
    183. BlitzBlitz
    184. TickTick
    185. ChainsawChainsaw
    186. TickTick
    187. Wind
    188. TickTick
    189. BlitzBlitz
    190. CitadelAnti-nukedone 14:51
    191. BeamerBeamer
    192. TickTick
    193. Converter
    194. BlitzBlitz
    195. TickTick ×2
    196. Wind
    197. BlitzBlitz
    198. TickTick
    199. BlitzBlitz
    200. TickTick
    201. BeamerBeamer
    202. TickTick
    203. BlitzBlitz
    204. LazarusLazarus
    205. Converter
    206. Wind
    207. BlitzBlitz ×2
    208. LazarusLazarus
    209. BlitzBlitz
    210. Wind
    211. BlitzBlitz
    212. Con turret
    213. Converter
    214. BlitzBlitz
    215. LazarusLazarus
    216. BlitzBlitz ×2
    217. Wind
    218. LazarusLazarus
    219. BlitzBlitz

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Ariah's (41 OS, 24/09/2026); 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 4:26 · 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

Ariah

41.3 OS · 24/09/2026

Open source match ↗

79 received units · includes a constructor
194 metal received · 144100 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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