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

42.2 OS · 19/09/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
73 metal received · 11658 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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