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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 · 6 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×3
    5. Energy storage
    6. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:24 · 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 · 224 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot ×5
    2. Wind
    3. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    4. Wind
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    6. Wind
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Wind ×2
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Wind ×2
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. Wind ×3
    13. Construction BotCon bot
    14. Wind ×15
    15. Converter
    16. Wind ×2
    17. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:20 · typical 9:54
    18. Wind
    19. Converter ×2
    20. AnemoneAnemone
    21. Converter
    22. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    23. Converter
    24. HarpoonHarpoon
    25. Converter
    26. HarpoonHarpoon
    27. Converter
    28. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    29. Converter
    30. AnemoneAnemone
    31. Converter ×2
    32. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    33. Wind
    34. Converter
    35. Wind
    36. Con turret
    37. Wind ×2
    38. Converter
    39. Wind ×2
    40. Bot LabBot Labdone 9:23
    41. Converter ×2
    42. Con turret
    43. Wind
    44. Converter
    45. Construction BotCon bot
    46. Wind ×2
    47. Con turret
    48. Wind
    49. Construction BotCon bot
    50. Wind ×2
    51. HarpoonHarpoon
    52. Converter
    53. Con turret
    54. Wind ×3
    55. Construction BotCon bot
    56. Wind
    57. Converter
    58. Wind
    59. Con turret
    60. Wind
    61. Construction BotCon bot
    62. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    63. Wind ×2
    64. BeamerBeamer
    65. Wind
    66. Converter
    67. Construction BotCon bot
    68. ShipyardShipyarddone 10:09
    69. Wind ×3
    70. Construction BotCon bot
    71. Wind ×3
    72. Converter
    73. Construction BotCon bot
    74. Wind ×3
    75. Construction BotCon bot
    76. Wind ×2
    77. Converter
    78. Wind
    79. Construction ShipCon ship
    80. Wind ×3
    81. Construction BotCon bot
    82. Construction ShipCon ship
    83. Converter
    84. EllysawFrigate
    85. Wind ×3
    86. Construction BotCon bot
    87. Naval Construction Turret
    88. EllysawFrigate
    89. Wind ×2
    90. Naval Construction Turret
    91. Wind
    92. Converter
    93. Naval Construction Turret
    94. Construction BotCon bot
    95. Wind ×2
    96. Naval Construction Turret
    97. Wind ×2
    98. Construction BotCon bot
    99. Converter
    100. Wind ×3
    101. EllysawFrigate
    102. Wind ×4
    103. PawnPawn
    104. Converter
    105. Wind ×2
    106. SentrySentry
    107. PawnPawn
    108. Wind ×2
    109. SentrySentry ×2
    110. Mex ×2
    111. PawnPawn
    112. Wind
    113. SentrySentry
    114. PawnPawnfor Geo sea
    115. Wind
    116. Converter
    117. Wind
    118. PawnPawnfor Geo sea
    119. SkaterSkater
    120. Wind
    121. CorsairDestroyerdone 11:39
    122. PawnPawnfor Geo sea
    123. Wind ×4
    124. PawnPawnfor Geo sea
    125. Wind
    126. Converter
    127. EllysawFrigate
    128. Wind
    129. PawnPawnfor Geo sea
    130. Wind
    131. Converter
    132. Wind ×2
    133. EllysawFrigate
    134. Wind
    135. PawnPawnfor Geo sea
    136. EllysawFrigate
    137. Wind ×3
    138. PawnPawnfor Geo sea
    139. Wind
    140. SkaterSkater
    141. Wind
    142. Converter
    143. PawnPawn
    144. Converter
    145. CorsairDestroyer
    146. Wind ×9
    147. Converter
    148. Construction BotCon bot
    149. EllysawFrigate
    150. Wind
    151. Converter
    152. Wind ×5
    153. EllysawFrigate
    154. Converter
    155. Wind ×4
    156. Converter
    157. Advanced ShipyardAdvanced Shipyarddone 13:13
    158. Wind ×6
    159. Converter ×2
    160. Wind ×10
    161. Converter ×2
    162. Wind ×10
    163. Converter ×2
    164. Wind ×5
    165. Converter
    166. Wind
    167. Converter
    168. Wind ×4
    169. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    170. Advanced Construction SubAdvanced Construction Sub
    171. Wind ×5
    172. Converter ×2
    173. Wind ×6
    174. Converter
    175. Wind ×2
    176. VoyagerVoyager
    177. Wind
    178. Converter
    179. Wind
    180. Converter
    181. VoyagerVoyager
    182. Wind ×4
    183. VoyagerVoyager
    184. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    185. Wind
    186. Converter ×2
    187. Wind ×2
    188. DreadnoughtBattleshipdone 14:12
    189. Wind
    190. Converter
    191. Wind ×6
    192. Converter
    193. Wind
    194. Converter ×2
    195. Naval Advanced Metal ExtractorNaval Advanced Metal Extractordone 14:19
    196. Wind ×6
    197. Converter
    198. Wind
    199. Converter
    200. Wind ×3
    201. Converter
    202. Wind
    203. PaladinCruisernot finished by 15:00
    204. Wind
    205. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    206. Wind ×3
    207. Converter ×2
    208. Wind ×4
    209. Converter
    210. Wind
    211. Naval Advanced Metal ExtractorNaval Advanced Metal Extractor
    212. Wind ×2
    213. DreadnoughtBattleship
    214. Wind ×2
    215. Converter ×2
    216. Wind ×2
    217. Converter
    218. Wind ×5
    219. Converter ×2
    220. Wind ×4
    221. Converter
    222. Wind ×5
    223. Converter
    224. Wind ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Viltrum's (42 OS, 25/09/2026); 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

Viltrum

41.8 OS · 25/09/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
10004 metal received · 49891 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

Played most by

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