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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 · 4 steps
    1. Tidal ×10for Suicide front
    2. Tidal
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:02 · 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 · 116 steps
    1. Converter
    2. LazarusLazarus ×2
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Wind
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Wind
    7. Con turret
    8. Wind ×2
    9. LazarusLazarus
    10. Wind ×7
    11. Energy storage
    12. Windfor Suicide front
    13. Wind
    14. Wind ×5for Suicide front
    15. Wind ×4
    16. Con turret
    17. Converter ×5
    18. Wind
    19. Converter
    20. Wind
    21. Converter
    22. Wind
    23. Converter
    24. Con turret
    25. Wind ×2
    26. Converter
    27. Wind
    28. Converter ×2
    29. Wind ×29
    30. Bot LabBot Labdone 8:57
    31. Wind ×2
    32. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:25 · typical 9:56
    33. Wind ×7
    34. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    35. Wind ×2
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    37. Wind
    38. Con turret
    39. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plant ×2done 10:42
    40. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    41. BlitzBlitz
    42. CrossbowCrossbow
    43. BlitzBlitz
    44. Con turret
    45. BlitzBlitz
    46. TickTick
    47. BlitzBlitz
    48. TickTick
    49. BlitzBlitz
    50. PawnPawn
    51. BlitzBlitz
    52. PawnPawn
    53. BlitzBlitz
    54. PawnPawn
    55. BlitzBlitz ×2
    56. CrossbowCrossbow
    57. TickTick
    58. BlitzBlitz
    59. TickTick
    60. BlitzBlitz
    61. PawnPawn
    62. BlitzBlitz
    63. PawnPawn ×2
    64. BlitzBlitz
    65. CrossbowCrossbow
    66. BlitzBlitz
    67. TickTick ×2
    68. BlitzBlitz
    69. PawnPawn
    70. BlitzBlitz
    71. PawnPawn
    72. BlitzBlitz
    73. PawnPawn
    74. CrossbowCrossbow
    75. BlitzBlitz
    76. TickTick ×2
    77. PawnPawn
    78. BlitzBlitz
    79. PawnPawn
    80. BlitzBlitz
    81. PawnPawn
    82. BlitzBlitz
    83. CrossbowCrossbow
    84. TracerTracer
    85. BlitzBlitz
    86. TickTick ×2
    87. BlitzBlitz ×2
    88. PawnPawn
    89. BlitzBlitz
    90. PawnPawn
    91. BlitzBlitz
    92. PawnPawn
    93. BlitzBlitz
    94. CrossbowCrossbow
    95. BlitzBlitz ×2
    96. TickTick ×2
    97. BlitzBlitz ×2
    98. PawnPawn
    99. BlitzBlitz ×2
    100. PawnPawn
    101. BlitzBlitz ×2
    102. PawnPawn
    103. BlitzBlitz
    104. CrossbowCrossbow
    105. BlitzBlitz
    106. TickTick
    107. BlitzBlitz
    108. TickTick
    109. BlitzBlitz
    110. PawnPawn
    111. BlitzBlitz
    112. PawnPawn
    113. BlitzBlitz
    114. PawnPawn
    115. BlitzBlitz
    116. CrossbowCrossbow

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Harryplotter's (37 OS, 12/08/2026); 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 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

Harryplotter

36.8 OS · 12/08/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
412 metal received · 33150 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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