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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 · 448 distinct matches · 96 players · 59% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 510 · 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 448 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 ~5:40, 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 · 5 steps
    1. Tidal ×9for Suicide front
    2. Mex ×4for Suicide front
    3. Wind ×4for Suicide front
    4. Energy storagefor Suicide front
    5. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:26 · typical 5:40
  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 (43%)

    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 · 47 steps
    1. Construction BotCon botfor Suicide front
    2. Windfor Suicide front
    3. Construction BotCon botfor Suicide front
    4. Windfor Suicide front
    5. Construction BotCon botfor Suicide front
    6. Con turretfor Suicide front
    7. Windfor Suicide front
    8. LazarusLazarusfor Suicide front
    9. Wind ×2for Suicide front
    10. LazarusLazarusfor Suicide front
    11. Wind ×4for Suicide front
    12. Con turretfor Suicide front
    13. Windfor Suicide front
    14. Con turretfor Suicide front
    15. Windfor Suicide front
    16. Converterfor Suicide front
    17. Windfor Suicide front
    18. Con turretfor Suicide front
    19. Wind ×4for Suicide front
    20. Bot LabBot Labfor Suicide frontdone 6:15
    21. Windfor Suicide front
    22. Converterfor Suicide front
    23. AnemoneAnemone
    24. Converterfor Suicide front
    25. Windfor Suicide front
    26. Con turretfor Suicide front
    27. Wind ×2for Suicide front
    28. Sneaky PeteSneaky Petefor Suicide front
    29. Wind ×2for Suicide front
    30. LazarusLazarusfor Suicide front
    31. Wind ×3for Suicide front
    32. LazarusLazarusfor Suicide front
    33. Wind ×2for Suicide front
    34. CenturionCenturionfor Suicide front
    35. Converterfor Suicide front
    36. Windfor Suicide front
    37. Radar TowerRadar Towerfor Suicide front
    38. Converterfor Suicide front
    39. CenturionCenturionfor Suicide front
    40. Wind ×6for Suicide front
    41. CenturionCenturionfor Suicide front
    42. Wind ×3for Suicide front
    43. CenturionCenturionfor Suicide front
    44. Wind ×2for Suicide front
    45. AnemoneAnemone
    46. Windfor Suicide front
    47. Converterfor Suicide front

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Nazarid's (37 OS, 09/08/2026); 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 31% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:41 · in 38% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 4:59 · in 40% of games
  • Sharpshooter2 Sniper bot from Techfirst at 5:15 · 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

510 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027300
3:0081700
4:00151000
5:00223100
6:00298500
7:0038414800
8:0047421276148
9:0056932025379
10:0068722865720
11:00833433171188
12:001029036841616
13:001259342621966
14:001491447802454
15:001745653243030
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

Nazarid

37.2 OS · 09/08/2026

Open source match ↗

1 received units · includes a constructor
172 metal received · 37996 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:40Middle 50%: 3:31–7:01 · n=459
Advanced Metal Extractor9:56Middle 50%: 9:01–10:38 · n=460

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