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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 · 485 distinct matches · 107 players · 59% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 552 · 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 485 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 ~5:36, middle half 3:31–7:00

    Some games also: converter (45%)

    By 5:05 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 ×2
    5. Energy storage
    6. Wind
    7. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:26 · typical 5:36
  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 (48%) · 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 · 219 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot ×8
    2. Wind
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Wind
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Wind
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Wind ×2
    9. Converter
    10. Wind
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. Wind ×2
    13. Converter
    14. Wind ×2
    15. Construction BotCon bot
    16. Converter
    17. Wind ×2
    18. Converter
    19. Wind ×4
    20. Converter ×2
    21. Wind ×2
    22. Converter
    23. Wind ×2
    24. Converter
    25. Wind ×4
    26. Converter ×2
    27. Wind ×3
    28. Converter
    29. Wind
    30. Converter
    31. Wind ×3
    32. Converter
    33. Wind ×2
    34. Converter
    35. Wind
    36. Converter
    37. Wind ×4
    38. Converter
    39. Wind
    40. Converter
    41. Wind
    42. Con turret
    43. Wind ×3
    44. Converter ×2
    45. Wind ×4
    46. Converter
    47. Wind ×5
    48. Converter
    49. Wind ×2
    50. Con turret
    51. Wind
    52. Converter
    53. Wind ×5
    54. Converter
    55. Wind ×2
    56. Converter
    57. Wind ×5
    58. Converter
    59. Wind
    60. Converter
    61. Wind ×6
    62. Converter
    63. Wind
    64. Converter
    65. Wind ×4
    66. Converter
    67. Wind ×4
    68. Converter ×2
    69. Wind ×7
    70. Converter
    71. Wind
    72. Converter
    73. Wind ×6
    74. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 9:31
    75. Wind ×2
    76. Converter
    77. Wind ×5
    78. Converter
    79. Wind ×4
    80. Converter
    81. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:51 · typical 9:54
    82. BlitzBlitz
    83. Converter ×2
    84. BlitzBlitz
    85. Wind
    86. BlitzBlitz
    87. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    88. Converter
    89. Wind
    90. BlitzBlitz
    91. SentrySentry
    92. BlitzBlitz
    93. Converter
    94. BlitzBlitz
    95. Wind
    96. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    97. BlitzBlitz
    98. Converter
    99. BlitzBlitz ×2
    100. Converter
    101. BlitzBlitz ×2
    102. Wind
    103. BlitzBlitz
    104. Converter
    105. BlitzBlitz
    106. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    107. Wind
    108. Converter
    109. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    110. Wind
    111. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    112. Wind ×2
    113. Converter
    114. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    115. Wind ×4
    116. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    117. Wind ×2
    118. Converter
    119. Wind ×3
    120. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    121. Wind
    122. Converter
    123. Wind ×3
    124. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    125. Mexfor Front
    126. Wind
    127. CitadelAnti-nukedone 12:45
    128. Wind ×3
    129. Converter
    130. Wind ×5
    131. Converter
    132. Wind
    133. SentrySentry
    134. Wind ×4
    135. Converter
    136. SentrySentry
    137. Wind ×4
    138. Converter
    139. Wind
    140. SentrySentry
    141. Wind ×2
    142. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    143. Wind ×3
    144. SentrySentry
    145. Converter
    146. Wind ×6
    147. SentrySentry
    148. Converter
    149. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    150. Wind ×3
    151. Con turret
    152. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    153. Wind ×4
    154. Converter
    155. SentrySentry
    156. Wind ×3
    157. Con turret
    158. Wind
    159. SentrySentry
    160. Converter
    161. Wind ×3
    162. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    163. Wind ×4
    164. Converter
    165. Wind ×6
    166. Con turret
    167. Wind
    168. Converter
    169. Wind ×4
    170. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Geo
    171. Wind ×2
    172. Con turret
    173. BlitzBlitz
    174. Wind ×3
    175. Converter
    176. Wind ×4
    177. Con turret
    178. Wind ×2
    179. BlitzBlitz
    180. Wind ×2
    181. Con turret
    182. Converter
    183. Wind ×2
    184. Con turret
    185. Wind ×5
    186. Con turret
    187. Wind ×2
    188. Converter
    189. Wind ×5
    190. Con turret
    191. Wind ×3
    192. Con turret
    193. Wind ×3
    194. Con turret
    195. Wind ×2
    196. Con turret
    197. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Geo
    198. Wind
    199. Converter
    200. Con turret
    201. Wind ×3
    202. Con turret
    203. Wind ×5
    204. Con turret ×2
    205. Wind ×4
    206. Converter
    207. Wind
    208. Con turret ×3
    209. Wind
    210. Con turret
    211. Wind ×3
    212. Con turret
    213. Wind ×4
    214. Converter
    215. Wind ×5
    216. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 14:56
    217. Wind ×3
    218. Con turret
    219. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Viltrum's (42 OS, 26/09/2026); 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 4:28 · in 31% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:44 · in 39% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 5:03 · in 40% of games
  • Sharpshooter2 Sniper bot from Techfirst at 5:16 · 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

552 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027300
3:0082000
4:00151000
5:00223100
6:00298400
7:0038434600
8:0047571245139
9:0057151971377
10:0069002791714
11:00838032701148
12:001035735821584
13:001262341971941
14:001497747652420
15:001762253213019
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

Viltrum

41.6 OS · 26/09/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
127 metal received · 103523 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:36Middle 50%: 3:31–7:00 · n=496
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:38 · n=500

Played most by

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