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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 · 10 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal
    3. Mex
    4. Wind
    5. Mex ×3
    6. Wind ×10
    7. Energy storage
    8. Wind ×6
    9. Converter ×4
    10. Bot LabBot Labdone 5:39 · 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 · 136 steps
    1. Construction BotCon botfor Geo
    2. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    3. LazarusLazarus ×2
    4. Mexfor Suicide front
    5. SentrySentry
    6. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Converter
    9. Wind
    10. Construction BotCon bot
    11. Wind
    12. SentrySentry
    13. Wind
    14. Converter
    15. Wind ×2
    16. SentrySentry
    17. Converter
    18. TickTick ×2
    19. Wind
    20. TickTick
    21. Converter
    22. TickTick
    23. Wind
    24. TickTick
    25. SentrySentry
    26. TickTick
    27. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:25 · typical 9:54
    28. Wind
    29. TickTick
    30. Converter
    31. TickTick ×3
    32. Converter
    33. TickTick ×3
    34. Converter
    35. TickTick ×2
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    37. SentrySentry
    38. TickTick
    39. Converter
    40. TickTick ×3
    41. Converter
    42. TickTick ×3
    43. Converter
    44. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    45. TickTick ×14
    46. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    47. TickTick ×7
    48. Con turret
    49. TickTick ×2
    50. Wind
    51. TickTick ×2
    52. Wind
    53. TickTick ×2
    54. Con turret
    55. Wind
    56. TickTick
    57. PawnPawn
    58. Wind
    59. Con turret
    60. Wind
    61. TickTick
    62. PawnPawn
    63. Wind
    64. TickTick
    65. Wind
    66. PawnPawn
    67. Wind
    68. TickTick
    69. Wind
    70. PawnPawn
    71. Wind
    72. TickTick
    73. Wind
    74. PawnPawn
    75. Metal storage
    76. Wind
    77. TickTick
    78. Wind
    79. PawnPawn
    80. Wind
    81. TickTick
    82. Wind
    83. Con turret
    84. PawnPawn
    85. Con turret
    86. Wind
    87. TickTick
    88. Con turret ×2
    89. PawnPawn
    90. Con turret ×2
    91. TickTick
    92. PawnPawn
    93. TickTick
    94. PawnPawn
    95. TickTick
    96. PawnPawn
    97. TickTick
    98. PawnPawn
    99. TickTick
    100. PawnPawn
    101. TickTick
    102. PawnPawn
    103. TickTick
    104. PawnPawn
    105. TickTick
    106. PawnPawn
    107. TickTick
    108. PawnPawn
    109. TickTick
    110. PawnPawn
    111. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 14:39
    112. Converter
    113. TickTick
    114. Converter
    115. PawnPawn
    116. Converter
    117. TickTick
    118. Converter
    119. PawnPawn
    120. TickTick
    121. Converter
    122. PawnPawn
    123. Converter
    124. TickTick
    125. Converter
    126. PawnPawn
    127. Converter
    128. TickTick
    129. Converter
    130. PawnPawn ×2
    131. Converter
    132. PawnPawn
    133. Bot LabBot Labdone 14:58
    134. Converter
    135. TickTick
    136. PawnPawn

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [Grump]_Doni's (52 OS, 03/10/2026); 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

[Grump]_Doni

51.7 OS · 03/10/2026

Open source match ↗

3 received units · includes a constructor
196 metal received · 43674 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

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