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Armada Pond build order · Supreme Isthmus

Pond's usual economy-first play: Bot Lab around 5:35, boosting the fronts with tidal/wind, then Advanced Metal Extractor and T1 units to help front.

#eco #team support · 491 distinct matches · 109 players · 59% of Armada Pond games · team won 49% of 559 · 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 491 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 3:31–7:01

    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 · 17 steps
    1. Tidal ×9for Suicide front
    2. Mex ×3
    3. Mexfor Suicide front
    4. Wind ×4for Suicide front
    5. Bot LabBot Labfor Suicide frontdone 3:11 · typical 5:35
    6. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    7. Wind ×2for Suicide front
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. Windfor Suicide front
    10. Energy storagefor Suicide front
    11. Converter ×2for Suicide front
    12. Construction BotCon bot
    13. Wind ×2
    14. Construction BotCon botfor Suicide front
    15. Wind ×2
    16. Construction BotCon bot
    17. Wind ×2
  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 · 190 steps
    1. Construction BotCon botfor Suicide front
    2. Wind ×3
    3. Construction BotCon botfor Suicide front
    4. Wind ×3
    5. Construction BotCon botfor Suicide front
    6. Wind ×10
    7. Construction BotCon botfor Suicide front
    8. Wind ×4
    9. Converterfor Suicide front
    10. Wind ×3
    11. Converterfor Suicide front
    12. Wind ×3
    13. Converterfor Suicide front
    14. Wind ×2
    15. Construction BotCon botfor Suicide front
    16. Wind ×2
    17. Converterfor Suicide front
    18. Wind ×3
    19. Converterfor Suicide front
    20. Wind
    21. Construction BotCon botfor Suicide front
    22. Wind ×2
    23. Converterfor Suicide front
    24. Wind ×3
    25. Converterfor Suicide front
    26. Wind ×3
    27. Con turretfor Suicide front
    28. TickTick
    29. Wind
    30. Converterfor Suicide front
    31. Wind
    32. TickTick
    33. Wind ×2
    34. Naval Energy Converterfor Suicide front
    35. TickTick
    36. Converterfor Suicide front
    37. Wind ×2
    38. TickTick
    39. Con turretfor Suicide front
    40. Naval Energy Converterfor Suicide front
    41. Wind ×2
    42. Converterfor Suicide front
    43. Wind ×2
    44. Naval Energy Converterfor Suicide front
    45. TickTick
    46. Wind
    47. Converterfor Suicide front
    48. Wind
    49. TickTick ×2
    50. Wind
    51. TickTick
    52. Naval Energy Converterfor Suicide front
    53. Wind
    54. TickTick
    55. Converterfor Suicide front
    56. Construction BotCon botfor Suicide front
    57. Wind ×2
    58. Naval Energy Converterfor Suicide front
    59. Construction BotCon botfor Suicide front
    60. Wind
    61. Converterfor Suicide front
    62. Wind
    63. Construction BotCon botfor Suicide front
    64. Wind ×2
    65. Naval Energy Converterfor Suicide front
    66. Wind
    67. Converterfor Suicide front
    68. Wind ×2
    69. TickTick
    70. Wind ×2
    71. TickTick
    72. Naval Energy Converter
    73. TickTick
    74. Wind
    75. Converterfor Suicide front
    76. Wind
    77. TickTick
    78. Wind ×2
    79. TickTick ×2
    80. Wind
    81. TickTick
    82. Wind
    83. TickTick
    84. Wind
    85. TickTick
    86. Converterfor Suicide front
    87. TickTick
    88. Wind
    89. TickTick
    90. Wind ×2
    91. TickTick
    92. Wind ×2
    93. Converterfor Suicide front
    94. Wind
    95. TickTick
    96. Wind ×3
    97. Converterfor Suicide front
    98. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Suicide frontdone 10:45 · typical 9:54
    99. Wind ×4
    100. Converterfor Suicide front
    101. Wind ×2
    102. TickTick ×2
    103. Converterfor Suicide front
    104. TickTick ×3
    105. Converterfor Suicide front
    106. TickTick ×5
    107. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Suicide front
    108. Converterfor Suicide front
    109. TickTick ×6
    110. Wind
    111. TickTick
    112. Wind
    113. Converterfor Suicide front
    114. Con turretfor Suicide front
    115. TickTick
    116. Wind ×3
    117. TickTick
    118. Wind
    119. Con turretfor Suicide front
    120. Wind
    121. TickTick
    122. Converterfor Suicide front
    123. Wind ×3
    124. TickTick
    125. Bot LabBot Labfor Suicide frontdone 11:35
    126. Wind
    127. Converterfor Suicide front
    128. TickTick
    129. Wind
    130. TickTick
    131. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Suicide front
    132. TickTickfor Suicide front
    133. TickTick
    134. TickTickfor Suicide front
    135. TickTick
    136. Converterfor Suicide front
    137. TickTickfor Suicide front
    138. Wind
    139. TickTick
    140. TickTickfor Suicide front
    141. TickTick
    142. TickTickfor Suicide front
    143. TickTick
    144. TickTickfor Suicide front
    145. TickTick
    146. TickTickfor Suicide front
    147. Windfor Suicide front
    148. TickTick
    149. TickTickfor Suicide front
    150. TickTick
    151. Converterfor Suicide front
    152. TickTickfor Suicide front
    153. TickTick
    154. TickTickfor Suicide front
    155. TickTick
    156. TickTickfor Suicide front
    157. Windfor Suicide front
    158. TickTick
    159. TickTickfor Suicide front
    160. TickTick
    161. TickTickfor Suicide front
    162. TickTick
    163. TickTickfor Suicide front
    164. TickTick
    165. TickTickfor Suicide front
    166. TickTick
    167. Wind
    168. TickTickfor Suicide front
    169. TickTick
    170. Converterfor Suicide front
    171. TickTickfor Suicide front
    172. TickTick
    173. TickTickfor Suicide front
    174. TickTick
    175. Windfor Suicide front
    176. TickTickfor Suicide front
    177. TickTick
    178. TickTickfor Suicide front
    179. TickTick
    180. TickTickfor Suicide front
    181. TickTick
    182. TickTickfor Suicide front
    183. Windfor Suicide front
    184. TickTick
    185. Converterfor Suicide front
    186. TickTick ×3for Suicide front
    187. Windfor Suicide front
    188. TickTickfor Suicide front
    189. Converterfor Suicide front
    190. Windfor Suicide front

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [FCRD]GlazedByAfussy's (35 OS, 19/08/2026); 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 30% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:43 · in 38% 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 8:17 · 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

559 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
7:0038504540
8:0047571237138
9:0057191963370
10:0069182763714
11:00841732701149
12:001038635791578
13:001269541841940
14:001506647452417
15:001770253143015
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

[FCRD]GlazedByAfussy

35.5 OS · 19/08/2026

Open source match ↗

2 received units · includes a constructor
24 metal received · 36381 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:35Middle 50%: 3:31–7:01 · n=502
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:38 · n=507

Played most by

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