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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 · 473 distinct matches · 104 players · 60% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 541 · 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 473 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 (45%)

    By 5:08 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 ×3
    3. Energy storage
    4. Converter
    5. Mex ×4
    6. Wind ×2
    7. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:40 · 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 (50%) · Lazarus (48%) · converter (44%)

    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 · 126 steps
    1. Wind
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. Wind ×3
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. Wind
    6. Con turret
    7. Wind ×5
    8. Con turret
    9. Wind
    10. Converter ×4
    11. Con turret
    12. Wind ×29
    13. Converter
    14. Wind ×2
    15. Converter
    16. Wind
    17. Converter
    18. Wind
    19. Converter
    20. Wind ×2
    21. Converter ×2
    22. Wind ×2
    23. Converter
    24. Wind ×2
    25. Converter
    26. Wind
    27. Converter
    28. Wind ×4
    29. Converter
    30. Wind ×18
    31. Hovercraft PlatformHovercraft Platformnot finished by 15:00
    32. Wind
    33. PawnPawn
    34. Wind ×2
    35. TickTick
    36. Wind
    37. TickTick ×2
    38. Wind
    39. TickTick
    40. Wind
    41. TickTick
    42. Converter
    43. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:32 · typical 9:56
    44. Wind
    45. TickTick ×2
    46. Wind
    47. TickTick ×5
    48. Converter
    49. TickTick ×2
    50. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    51. TickTick ×4
    52. Converter
    53. TickTick ×3
    54. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    55. TickTick ×2
    56. Converter
    57. TickTick ×5
    58. Converter
    59. TickTick ×4
    60. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    61. TickTick
    62. Converter
    63. TickTick ×7
    64. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 12:21
    65. TickTick
    66. Con turret
    67. TickTick ×4
    68. Con turret
    69. TickTick
    70. Con turret
    71. TickTick ×2
    72. Con turret
    73. Wind
    74. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 11:45
    75. TickTick
    76. Wind
    77. TickTick
    78. Wind
    79. TickTick
    80. Wind ×2
    81. TickTick
    82. Wind
    83. StormbringerBomber
    84. Wind
    85. TickTick
    86. StormbringerBomber
    87. Wind
    88. TickTick
    89. StormbringerBomber
    90. Wind
    91. StormbringerBomber
    92. TickTick
    93. Wind
    94. StormbringerBomber
    95. Wind
    96. TickTick
    97. StormbringerBomber
    98. RattlesnakeRattlesnake
    99. Wind
    100. TickTick
    101. StormbringerBomber
    102. Wind
    103. StormbringerBomber
    104. TickTick
    105. Wind ×4
    106. StormbringerBomber
    107. Wind ×6
    108. StormbringerBomber
    109. TickTick
    110. Wind
    111. StormbringerBomber
    112. TickTick
    113. StormbringerBomber
    114. TickTick
    115. StormbringerBomber ×2
    116. TickTick
    117. StormbringerBomber
    118. TickTick ×4
    119. FalconFighter
    120. BlinkScout plane
    121. TickTick ×7
    122. BansheeBanshee ×2
    123. TickTick
    124. BansheeBanshee
    125. TickTick
    126. BansheeBanshee

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is derkarl's (40 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 4:32 · in 31% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:43 · in 39% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 5:02 · 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

541 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027200
3:0081700
4:00150700
5:00223100
6:00298300
7:0038434600
8:0047501269147
9:0056992025378
10:0068742840714
11:00833732981178
12:001029136611603
13:001261442021959
14:001493647782448
15:001751853403029
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

derkarl

39.7 OS · 26/09/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
87 metal received · 21153 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=485
Advanced Metal Extractor9:56Middle 50%: 9:01–10:40 · n=490

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