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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 · 8 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal
    3. Wind
    4. Mex ×4
    5. Wind ×3
    6. Energy storage
    7. Wind ×4for Suicide front
    8. Bot LabBot Labdone 4:07 · 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 · 121 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    2. RocketeerRocketeer
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Con turret
    5. RocketeerRocketeer
    6. PawnPawn ×3
    7. Converter
    8. PawnPawn
    9. Windfor Suicide front
    10. PawnPawn ×2
    11. Windfor Suicide front
    12. PawnPawn
    13. Converter
    14. PawnPawn
    15. Windfor Suicide front
    16. PawnPawn
    17. RocketeerRocketeer
    18. Windfor Suicide front
    19. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:12 · typical 9:54
    20. Wind
    21. Converter
    22. Wind ×3
    23. Converter
    24. Wind
    25. RocketeerRocketeer
    26. Wind
    27. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    28. Wind
    29. RocketeerRocketeer
    30. Converter
    31. Wind ×2
    32. RocketeerRocketeer
    33. CenturionCenturion
    34. Converter
    35. Wind
    36. SentrySentry
    37. Wind
    38. LazarusLazarus
    39. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    40. Wind
    41. LazarusLazarus
    42. Converter
    43. Wind
    44. LazarusLazarus
    45. Mexfor Suicide front
    46. LazarusLazarus
    47. Wind
    48. LazarusLazarus
    49. Wind
    50. Mexfor Suicide front
    51. CenturionCenturion
    52. Converter
    53. Wind
    54. RocketeerRocketeer
    55. CenturionCenturion
    56. Wind
    57. RocketeerRocketeer
    58. CenturionCenturion
    59. Wind
    60. CenturionCenturion
    61. Converter
    62. Wind
    63. CenturionCenturion
    64. Wind
    65. TickTick ×3
    66. Wind
    67. TickTick ×2
    68. Converter
    69. TickTick ×2
    70. Wind
    71. TickTick ×6
    72. Wind
    73. TickTick ×3
    74. Converter
    75. TickTick ×2
    76. Wind
    77. TickTick ×3
    78. Wind
    79. TickTick ×4
    80. Wind
    81. TickTick
    82. Converter
    83. TickTick ×7
    84. Con turret
    85. TickTick
    86. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    87. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 11:43
    88. TickTick ×2
    89. Converter
    90. TickTick ×5
    91. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Front
    92. Converter
    93. Wind ×2
    94. Construction BotCon bot
    95. Wind
    96. Converter
    97. Wind
    98. Fusion ReactorFusionnot finished by 15:00
    99. Construction BotCon bot
    100. Wind
    101. Construction BotCon bot
    102. Wind
    103. Converter
    104. Construction BotCon bot
    105. Wind
    106. Construction BotCon bot
    107. TickTick ×2
    108. Wind
    109. TickTick ×3
    110. CenturionCenturion
    111. Converter
    112. Wind
    113. CenturionCenturion
    114. Wind
    115. CenturionCenturion
    116. Wind
    117. TickTick ×5
    118. Converter
    119. TickTick
    120. Wind
    121. TickTick ×5

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [BS]Hellzie's (40 OS, 27/09/2026); 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

[BS]Hellzie

40.0 OS · 27/09/2026

Open source match ↗

3 received units · includes a constructor
13 metal received · 15387 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

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