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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 · 21 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×3
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×2
    5. Energy storagefor Suicide front
    6. Wind ×10
    7. AnemoneAnemone
    8. Wind ×2
    9. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    10. Mexfor Suicide front
    11. Wind
    12. Con turret
    13. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    14. Wind ×6
    15. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:17 · typical 9:56
    16. Wind ×3
    17. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    18. Con turret
    19. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    20. Con turret
    21. Bot LabBot Labdone 9:44 · 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 · 169 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. TickTick
    5. Wind
    6. TickTick ×3
    7. Wind
    8. TickTick ×3
    9. Wind
    10. TickTick ×2
    11. Con turret
    12. Wind
    13. TickTick
    14. Wind
    15. Con turret
    16. TickTick
    17. Wind
    18. Energy storage
    19. TickTick
    20. Con turret
    21. TickTick
    22. Wind ×3
    23. TickTick ×2
    24. Wind
    25. TickTick
    26. Con turret
    27. Wind
    28. TickTick
    29. Con turret
    30. TickTick
    31. Wind ×2
    32. Bot LabBot Labdone 11:15
    33. TickTick
    34. Wind
    35. TickTick ×4
    36. Wind ×2
    37. TickTick ×2
    38. Wind
    39. Construction BotCon bot
    40. Wind
    41. TickTick
    42. Wind
    43. TickTick
    44. Wind ×3
    45. TickTick
    46. Wind
    47. TickTick
    48. Wind ×3
    49. TickTick
    50. Converter
    51. Wind
    52. TickTick
    53. Wind ×3
    54. TickTick
    55. Wind
    56. TickTick
    57. Converter
    58. Wind
    59. Fusion ReactorFusionnot finished by 15:00
    60. Wind ×2
    61. TickTick
    62. Wind
    63. TickTick
    64. Wind ×3
    65. Converter
    66. TickTick
    67. Wind ×2
    68. TickTick
    69. Converter
    70. Wind
    71. TickTick
    72. Wind
    73. TickTick
    74. Wind ×2
    75. Converter
    76. Wind
    77. TickTick ×2
    78. Wind ×2
    79. TickTick
    80. Converter
    81. TickTick
    82. Wind
    83. TickTick
    84. Wind ×3
    85. TickTick ×3
    86. Wind
    87. TickTick
    88. Wind
    89. Converter
    90. TickTick ×2
    91. Wind ×2
    92. TickTick ×2
    93. Wind ×2
    94. Converter
    95. TickTick ×2
    96. Wind
    97. Converter
    98. Wind
    99. TickTick
    100. Wind
    101. TickTick
    102. Wind
    103. TickTick
    104. Wind
    105. TickTick
    106. Wind
    107. TickTick
    108. Converter
    109. Wind ×2
    110. TickTick ×2
    111. Wind
    112. TickTick
    113. PawnPawn
    114. TickTick
    115. Wind ×3
    116. Converter
    117. Wind
    118. TickTick
    119. PawnPawn
    120. TickTick
    121. PawnPawn
    122. Wind
    123. Converter
    124. PawnPawn
    125. Converter
    126. Wind
    127. PawnPawn ×4
    128. Converter
    129. Wind
    130. PawnPawn ×3
    131. Converter
    132. PawnPawn
    133. Wind
    134. PawnPawn ×3
    135. Converter
    136. Wind
    137. PawnPawn ×3
    138. Converter
    139. PawnPawn ×3
    140. Converter
    141. PawnPawn ×2
    142. Converter
    143. Wind
    144. PawnPawn ×4
    145. Converter
    146. PawnPawn ×2
    147. Wind
    148. PawnPawn ×2
    149. Converter
    150. PawnPawn ×2
    151. Converter
    152. PawnPawn
    153. Wind ×2
    154. PawnPawn
    155. Converter
    156. PawnPawn ×2
    157. Converter
    158. PawnPawn ×4
    159. Wind ×3
    160. PawnPawn ×2
    161. Wind
    162. PawnPawn ×2
    163. Wind
    164. PawnPawn
    165. Wind ×2
    166. PawnPawn
    167. Wind ×2
    168. PawnPawn
    169. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is AlRelSoulfire's (51 OS, 14/08/2026); 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 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

AlRelSoulfire

51.0 OS · 14/08/2026

Open source match ↗

13 received units · includes a constructor
773 metal received · 44834 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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