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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 · 5 steps
    1. Tidal ×9
    2. Mex ×4
    3. Windfor Air
    4. Wind
    5. Bot LabBot Labdone 2:55 · 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 · 112 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. Windfor Air
    3. Wind ×2
    4. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    5. LazarusLazarus
    6. Wind ×2
    7. LazarusLazarus
    8. Wind ×2
    9. Con turret
    10. Wind
    11. LazarusLazarus
    12. Wind ×2
    13. Energy storage
    14. Wind
    15. Converter ×2
    16. Wind
    17. Converter
    18. BlitzBlitz
    19. Wind ×7
    20. PawnPawn
    21. Wind ×3
    22. BlitzBlitz
    23. Wind ×5
    24. SentrySentry
    25. Wind ×3
    26. SentrySentry
    27. Wind ×2
    28. Converter
    29. Wind
    30. Converter
    31. Wind
    32. SentrySentry
    33. Converter
    34. Wind
    35. Converter
    36. Wind
    37. Converter
    38. Wind
    39. Converter
    40. Wind
    41. SentrySentry
    42. Converter
    43. Wind
    44. Converter
    45. Wind
    46. Mex
    47. Converter
    48. Wind ×2
    49. Converter
    50. Wind
    51. Converter
    52. Wind
    53. Converter
    54. Wind
    55. Converter
    56. Wind
    57. Converter
    58. Wind ×2
    59. Mex
    60. Converter
    61. Wind ×2
    62. SentrySentry
    63. Wind
    64. Converter ×2
    65. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:24
    66. Converter
    67. SentrySentry ×2
    68. Converter
    69. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    70. Converter ×2
    71. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    72. Converter
    73. Con turret
    74. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    75. Advanced solar
    76. Converter
    77. SentrySentry ×2
    78. Con turret
    79. SentrySentry
    80. Converter
    81. Advanced solar
    82. Con turret
    83. Advanced solar
    84. Converter
    85. Advanced solar
    86. NettleNettle
    87. Converter
    88. NettleNettle ×3
    89. Advanced solar
    90. Con turret
    91. Converter
    92. Bot LabBot Labdone 13:50
    93. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 14:02
    94. PrevailerPrevailernot finished by 15:00
    95. Advanced solar
    96. LazarusLazarus
    97. BlitzBlitz
    98. TickTick
    99. BlitzBlitz
    100. LazarusLazarus
    101. BlitzBlitz
    102. LazarusLazarus
    103. BlitzBlitz
    104. LazarusLazarus
    105. Con turret
    106. BlitzBlitz
    107. LazarusLazarus
    108. BlitzBlitz ×4
    109. Advanced solar
    110. TickTick
    111. Con turret
    112. BlitzBlitz ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is RogShotz's (43 OS, 22/08/2026); 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

RogShotz

42.6 OS · 22/08/2026

Open source match ↗

3 received units · includes a constructor
43 metal received · 12443 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

Played most by

Viltrum41games of this buildTeaner35games of this buildUsurpeR24games of this buildzeus_on_god24games of this buildRogShotz20games of this build