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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 · 485 distinct matches · 107 players · 59% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 552 · 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 485 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 ~5:36, middle half 3:31–7:00

    Some games also: converter (45%)

    By 5:05 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
    3. Mex
    4. Wind
    5. Mex ×2
    6. Wind
    7. Energy storage
    8. Mex
    9. Wind ×2
    10. Converter
    11. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:40 · typical 5:36
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine16Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret
    • Construction Bot2 Con bot
    Army
    • Tick1 Tick

    Some games also: Lazarus (48%) · converter (45%)

    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 · 147 steps
    1. LazarusLazarus ×2
    2. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    3. Construction BotCon bot ×5
    4. Converter
    5. Wind ×5
    6. Converter
    7. Wind ×5
    8. Bot LabBot Labdone 8:02
    9. Converter
    10. Wind ×5
    11. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:59 · typical 9:54
    12. Wind
    13. Construction BotCon bot
    14. Converter
    15. Wind
    16. Construction BotCon bot
    17. Wind ×2
    18. Con turret
    19. Wind ×3
    20. Converter
    21. TickTick
    22. Wind
    23. Con turret
    24. TickTick
    25. Wind
    26. TickTick ×2
    27. Wind
    28. TickTick ×2
    29. Wind
    30. TickTick ×2
    31. Converter
    32. TickTick
    33. Wind
    34. TickTick ×2
    35. Wind
    36. TickTick ×4
    37. Wind
    38. TickTick ×5
    39. Converter
    40. TickTick
    41. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    42. Wind
    43. TickTick ×3
    44. Wind
    45. TickTick ×3
    46. Wind
    47. TickTick ×4
    48. Wind
    49. TickTick ×2
    50. LazarusLazarus
    51. Converter
    52. Wind
    53. LazarusLazarus ×2
    54. TickTick ×5
    55. Wind
    56. Converter
    57. TickTick ×5
    58. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    59. TickTick
    60. Wind
    61. TickTick ×5
    62. Wind
    63. TickTick ×5
    64. Converter
    65. TickTick
    66. Wind
    67. TickTick ×6
    68. Wind
    69. TickTick ×2
    70. LazarusLazarus ×2
    71. Wind
    72. LazarusLazarus
    73. Converter
    74. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    75. TickTick
    76. Wind
    77. TickTick ×3
    78. Wind
    79. TickTick ×3
    80. Wind
    81. TickTick ×3
    82. Wind
    83. TickTick ×2
    84. Wind
    85. TickTick
    86. Converter
    87. TickTick
    88. Wind
    89. TickTick ×3
    90. Wind
    91. TickTick ×2
    92. PawnPawn
    93. Wind
    94. PawnPawn
    95. LazarusLazarus
    96. Wind
    97. LazarusLazarus
    98. Wind
    99. PawnPawn
    100. LazarusLazarus
    101. Wind
    102. Converter
    103. PawnPawn
    104. Wind
    105. PawnPawn ×2
    106. Wind
    107. PawnPawn
    108. Wind
    109. PawnPawn ×2
    110. Wind
    111. PawnPawn ×2
    112. Wind
    113. PawnPawn ×2
    114. Converter
    115. PawnPawn
    116. Wind
    117. Con turret
    118. TickTick
    119. Wind
    120. TickTick ×2
    121. Wind
    122. Con turret
    123. TickTick
    124. Wind
    125. TickTick ×3
    126. Wind
    127. TickTick ×3
    128. Wind
    129. TickTick
    130. Converter
    131. TickTick ×3
    132. Wind
    133. Con turret
    134. TickTick ×3
    135. Wind
    136. TickTick ×2
    137. Metal storage
    138. TickTick
    139. Wind
    140. TickTick
    141. Con turret
    142. TickTick
    143. Fusion ReactorFusionnot finished by 15:00
    144. Wind
    145. TickTick ×2
    146. Con turret
    147. TickTick

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Optimusprimenutt's (40 OS, 26/09/2026); 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 4:28 · in 31% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:44 · in 39% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 5:03 · 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

552 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027300
3:0082000
4:00151000
5:00223100
6:00298400
7:0038434600
8:0047571245139
9:0057151971377
10:0069002791714
11:00838032701148
12:001035735821584
13:001262341971941
14:001497747652420
15:001762253213019
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

Optimusprimenutt

40.3 OS · 26/09/2026

Open source match ↗

3 received units · includes a constructor
149 metal received · 49463 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:36Middle 50%: 3:31–7:00 · n=496
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:38 · n=500

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