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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 · 13 steps
    1. Tidal ×10for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×4
    5. Converter
    6. Wind ×4
    7. Converter
    8. Wind ×4
    9. Converter
    10. Wind ×4
    11. Converter
    12. SentrySentry ×3
    13. Bot LabBot Labdone 6:00 · 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 · 98 steps
    1. PawnPawn ×3
    2. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    3. TickTick ×4
    4. LazarusLazarus
    5. TickTick
    6. Wind
    7. TickTick ×3
    8. LazarusLazarus
    9. Wind
    10. TickTick
    11. Wind
    12. TickTick ×3
    13. LazarusLazarus
    14. Wind
    15. TickTick
    16. Converter
    17. TickTick ×3
    18. LazarusLazarus
    19. Wind
    20. TickTick ×4
    21. Wind
    22. LazarusLazarus
    23. TickTick
    24. Wind
    25. TickTick ×3
    26. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:13 · typical 9:56
    27. LazarusLazarus
    28. Wind
    29. TickTick ×4
    30. Converter
    31. LazarusLazarus
    32. TickTick ×4
    33. LazarusLazarus
    34. TickTick ×4
    35. LazarusLazarus
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    37. TickTick ×4
    38. LazarusLazarus
    39. Metal storage
    40. TickTick ×4
    41. LazarusLazarus
    42. TickTick
    43. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    44. TickTick ×3
    45. LazarusLazarus
    46. TickTick ×4
    47. LazarusLazarus
    48. TickTick ×4
    49. LazarusLazarus
    50. TickTick ×4
    51. LazarusLazarus
    52. TickTick
    53. Con turret
    54. TickTick ×3
    55. LazarusLazarus
    56. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    57. TickTick ×3
    58. LazarusLazarus
    59. Con turret ×2
    60. Energy storage
    61. Con turret ×5
    62. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plant ×2done 12:49
    63. BlitzBlitz ×23
    64. Tidal
    65. BlitzBlitz ×4
    66. Con turret
    67. BlitzBlitz ×2
    68. Tidal
    69. BlitzBlitz ×7
    70. Tidal
    71. BlitzBlitz ×5
    72. Tidal
    73. BlitzBlitz ×3
    74. Tidal
    75. Con turret
    76. BlitzBlitz
    77. Tidal
    78. BlitzBlitz ×2
    79. Tidal
    80. BlitzBlitz ×2
    81. Tidal
    82. BlitzBlitz ×3
    83. Tidal
    84. BlitzBlitz ×2
    85. Wind
    86. BlitzBlitz
    87. Tidal
    88. Wind
    89. BlitzBlitz ×2
    90. SharpshooterSniper botnot finished by 15:00
    91. BlitzBlitz
    92. Tidal
    93. Wind
    94. BlitzBlitz ×3
    95. Wind
    96. BlitzBlitz
    97. Tidal
    98. BlitzBlitz

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Dad_The_Speedrunner's (37 OS, 19/09/2026); 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

Dad_The_Speedrunner

36.6 OS · 19/09/2026

Open source match ↗

110 received units · includes a constructor
692 metal received · 39211 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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