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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is TrapCaT's (42 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

TrapCaT

41.5 OS · 19/09/2026

Open source match ↗

82 received units · includes a constructor
732 metal received · 29416 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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