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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 · 7 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind
    5. Energy storage ×2
    6. Converter ×4
    7. Con turret
  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 · 86 steps
    1. Con turret
    2. Wind ×5
    3. Con turret
    4. Metal storage
    5. Wind ×19
    6. Con turret
    7. Wind
    8. Bot LabBot Labdone 8:50
    9. GraverobberGraverobber ×4
    10. ThistleThistle
    11. GruntGrunt ×2
    12. SAMSAM
    13. GruntGrunt
    14. ThistleThistle
    15. GruntGrunt ×2
    16. Wind
    17. GruntGrunt
    18. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 11:04 · typical 9:56
    19. Wind
    20. GruntGrunt ×2
    21. Wind ×4
    22. GruntGrunt
    23. Wind ×2
    24. GruntGrunt
    25. Wind
    26. GruntGrunt
    27. Wind
    28. GruntGrunt
    29. Wind
    30. GruntGrunt
    31. Wind
    32. GruntGrunt
    33. Wind
    34. GruntGrunt
    35. Wind
    36. GruntGrunt
    37. Wind
    38. GruntGrunt
    39. Wind
    40. GruntGrunt
    41. Wind
    42. GruntGrunt
    43. Wind
    44. GruntGrunt
    45. Wind ×6
    46. Construction BotCon botfor Suicide front
    47. Wind
    48. ThugThug
    49. Wind
    50. Construction BotCon bot
    51. Wind
    52. GruntGrunt
    53. Construction BotCon bot
    54. ThugThug
    55. Wind
    56. Con turret
    57. Construction BotCon bot
    58. CenturionCenturion
    59. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    60. ButlerButler
    61. GruntGrunt ×6
    62. ThugThug
    63. GruntGrunt
    64. Twin GuardTwin Guard
    65. ThugThug
    66. GruntGrunt ×3
    67. Wind
    68. GruntGrunt
    69. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    70. GruntGrunt
    71. Wind
    72. GruntGrunt
    73. Wind
    74. GruntGrunt
    75. Wind
    76. GruntGrunt
    77. Construction BotCon bot
    78. Wind
    79. Construction BotCon bot
    80. Wind
    81. GraverobberGraverobber
    82. Wind
    83. GraverobberGraverobber ×2
    84. Wind
    85. Construction BotCon bot
    86. Wind ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is arcsiz's (37 OS, 29/08/2026); 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

arcsiz

36.7 OS · 29/08/2026

Open source match ↗

15 received units · includes a constructor
2213 metal received · 57681 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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