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Armada Pond build order · Supreme Isthmus

Pond's usual economy-first play: Bot Lab around 5:35, boosting the fronts with tidal/wind, then Advanced Metal Extractor and T1 units to help front.

#eco #team support · 493 distinct matches · 109 players · 60% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 561 · 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 493 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 3:32–7:02

    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 · 14 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for unknown
    2. Tidal
    3. Mex ×3
    4. Wind
    5. Mex
    6. Wind ×2
    7. Energy storage
    8. Wind ×2
    9. Energy storage
    10. Converter
    11. Wind ×8
    12. Converter
    13. Wind ×4
    14. Bot LabBot Labdone 5:26 · 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 (47%) · 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 · 190 steps
    1. TickTick ×2
    2. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    3. TickTick ×6
    4. Wind
    5. TickTick ×5
    6. Wind
    7. TickTick ×2
    8. LazarusLazarus
    9. Wind
    10. LazarusLazarus ×2
    11. Wind
    12. TickTick ×4
    13. Wind
    14. TickTick ×3
    15. SharpshooterSniper botdone 7:31
    16. TickTick
    17. Wind
    18. TickTick ×2
    19. SentrySentry
    20. TickTick ×3
    21. Wind
    22. SentrySentry
    23. TickTick ×4
    24. SentrySentry
    25. Construction BotCon bot
    26. Wind
    27. SentrySentry
    28. Construction BotCon bot
    29. Wind
    30. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    31. TickTick
    32. Converter
    33. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    34. TickTick
    35. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    36. TickTick
    37. Wind
    38. TickTick
    39. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    40. Converter
    41. TickTick
    42. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    43. TickTick
    44. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    45. TickTick ×2
    46. Wind
    47. SentrySentry
    48. Con turret
    49. TickTick ×3
    50. Wind
    51. TickTick
    52. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:19 · typical 9:54
    53. TickTick
    54. Wind
    55. TickTick
    56. SentrySentry
    57. TickTick ×2
    58. SentrySentry
    59. TickTick
    60. Wind
    61. TickTick
    62. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    63. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    64. TickTick
    65. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    66. TickTick
    67. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    68. TickTick ×2
    69. SentrySentry
    70. TickTick
    71. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    72. TickTick
    73. Wind
    74. TickTick ×4
    75. Wind
    76. TickTick
    77. SentrySentry
    78. TickTick
    79. Wind
    80. TickTick ×2
    81. Wind
    82. TickTick ×2
    83. Con turret
    84. Wind
    85. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    86. TickTick ×2
    87. Con turret
    88. SentrySentry
    89. TickTick ×2
    90. Wind
    91. TickTick
    92. SentrySentry
    93. TickTick
    94. Wind
    95. TickTick
    96. Con turret
    97. TickTick ×2
    98. Wind
    99. TickTick ×2
    100. Wind
    101. TickTick
    102. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 12:41
    103. Wind
    104. TickTick ×2
    105. Wind
    106. TickTick
    107. Wind
    108. TickTick
    109. Wind
    110. TickTick
    111. BlitzBlitz
    112. TickTick ×2
    113. BlitzBlitz
    114. Wind
    115. TickTick
    116. BlitzBlitz
    117. TickTick
    118. BlitzBlitz
    119. TickTick
    120. BlitzBlitz
    121. TickTick
    122. Converter
    123. TickTick
    124. BlitzBlitz
    125. TickTick
    126. Converter
    127. SentrySentry
    128. TickTick
    129. BlitzBlitz
    130. Converter
    131. TickTick
    132. BlitzBlitz
    133. TickTick ×2
    134. Converter
    135. TickTick
    136. BlitzBlitz
    137. TickTick
    138. Converter
    139. BlitzBlitz
    140. TickTick
    141. SentrySentry
    142. TickTick ×2
    143. Converter
    144. TickTick
    145. Converter
    146. TickTick ×5
    147. BlitzBlitz
    148. TickTick
    149. BlitzBlitz
    150. TickTick
    151. BlitzBlitz
    152. TickTick
    153. BlitzBlitz
    154. TickTick
    155. BlitzBlitz
    156. TickTick ×2
    157. BlitzBlitz
    158. TickTick ×2
    159. BlitzBlitz
    160. TickTick
    161. BlitzBlitz
    162. TickTick ×2
    163. BlitzBlitz
    164. TickTick
    165. BlitzBlitz
    166. TickTick ×2
    167. Wind
    168. TickTick
    169. Wind
    170. TickTick
    171. Wind
    172. TickTick
    173. BlitzBlitz
    174. TickTick
    175. Wind
    176. BlitzBlitz
    177. TickTick
    178. Wind
    179. BlitzBlitz
    180. TickTick ×2
    181. NettleNettle
    182. BlitzBlitz
    183. Wind
    184. TickTick
    185. BlitzBlitz
    186. TickTick
    187. Wind
    188. BlitzBlitz
    189. ChainsawChainsaw
    190. TickTick

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is BeanBro's (46 OS, 24/08/2026); 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 30% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:43 · in 38% 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 93% 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

561 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027300
3:0081900
4:00151000
5:00223100
6:00298400
7:0038484540
8:0047571240130
9:0057101965370
10:0069102763713
11:00841732701149
12:001038635791578
13:001269541841940
14:001506647452423
15:001770253143022
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

BeanBro

46.2 OS · 24/08/2026

Open source match ↗

3 received units · includes a constructor
77 metal received · 54910 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:36Middle 50%: 3:32–7:02 · n=504
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:38 · n=509

Played most by

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