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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 · 460 distinct matches · 100 players · 59% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 525 · 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 460 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 ~5:37, 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 · 12 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal
    3. Mex
    4. Wind
    5. Mex ×2
    6. Wind
    7. Mex
    8. Wind ×3
    9. Energy storage
    10. Wind ×6
    11. Energy storage
    12. Bot LabBot Labdone 5:13 · typical 5:37
  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 (44%)

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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [BS]Hellzie's (39 OS, 02/09/2026); 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 4:32 · in 31% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:43 · in 38% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 5:02 · in 39% of games
  • Sharpshooter2 Sniper bot from Techfirst at 5:15 · in 42% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 8:18 · 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

525 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027200
3:0081700
4:00151000
5:00223100
6:00298300
7:0038414650
8:0047391273148
9:0056922028380
10:0068692855722
11:00832233171188
12:001028636961616
13:001258342621962
14:001489648472448
15:001746053593031
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

[BS]Hellzie

39.2 OS · 02/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
137 metal received · 83375 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:37Middle 50%: 3:31–7:01 · n=473
Advanced Metal Extractor9:56Middle 50%: 9:01–10:39 · n=474

Played most by

Viltrum43games of this buildTeaner35games of this buildUsurpeR25games of this buildzeus_on_god25games of this buildRogShotz20games of this build
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