BAR / BUILD ATLAS
← All builds
Pond / Armada / Economy first / OBSERVED BUILD

Standard pond

Armada Pond build order · Supreme Isthmus

Economy-first Pond play: boost front via wind or tidal, Bot Lab around 5:36 then Advanced Metal Extractor, sending T1 units like Tick, Pawn and Blitz forward to help hold the middle until T2 arrives.

#eco #team support · 522 distinct matches · 111 players · 60% of Armada Pond games · team won 49% of 590 · 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 522 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 ~5:35, middle half 3:32–7:02

    Some games also: converter (45%)

    By 5:07 in all: 4 mex · 10 wind · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage

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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is KOT_'s (39 OS, 04/10/2026); 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

  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:43 · in 39% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 5:03 · in 40% of games
  • Sharpshooter2 Sniper bot from Techfirst at 5:16 · in 41% 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

590 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027400
3:0082100
4:00151000
5:00223100
6:00298500
7:0038464470
8:0047591226134
9:0057111957367
10:0069042754708
11:00841632671152
12:001038835741577
13:001270041761944
14:001505247162454
15:001770152843046
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

KOT_

38.7 OS · 04/10/2026

Open source match ↗

10 received units · includes a constructor
286 metal received · 39736 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:35Middle 50%: 3:32–7:02 · n=530
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:41 · n=535

Played most by

Viltrum45games of this buildTeaner40games of this buildUsurpeR28games of this buildzeus_on_god26games of this buildKOT_21games of this build