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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 · 4 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Bot LabBot Labdone 2:47 · 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 · 87 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. Wind ×4
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Con turret
    5. LazarusLazarus
    6. Wind ×4
    7. Con turret
    8. Converter
    9. Wind
    10. Converter
    11. Wind ×33
    12. NettleNettle
    13. Wind ×2
    14. Energy storage
    15. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:27
    16. Con turret
    17. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×2
    18. Wind ×2
    19. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    20. Wind ×3
    21. Con turret
    22. Converter
    23. Wind
    24. AnemoneAnemone
    25. Wind ×4
    26. Converter
    27. Wind
    28. Con turret
    29. Wind ×2
    30. Converter
    31. ChimeraChimera
    32. Wind ×3
    33. AnemoneAnemone
    34. Wind
    35. Converter
    36. Metal storage
    37. Wind
    38. Con turret
    39. Wind ×3
    40. Converter
    41. Wind
    42. Con turret
    43. Wind ×3
    44. AnemoneAnemone
    45. Wind
    46. Con turret
    47. Converter
    48. AnemoneAnemone
    49. Con turret
    50. Wind
    51. ShipyardShipyarddone 12:57
    52. Wind
    53. AnemoneAnemone
    54. Wind
    55. EelSubmarinedone 13:11
    56. Wind
    57. Con turret
    58. Wind
    59. Con turret
    60. SkaterSkater
    61. Converter
    62. Con turret
    63. DolphinDolphin
    64. Wind ×2
    65. DolphinDolphin ×2
    66. Grim ReaperGrim Reaper
    67. EelSubmarine
    68. Bot LabBot Labdone 13:53
    69. Construction ShipCon ship ×2
    70. Naval Construction Turret ×2
    71. Mexfor Geo sea
    72. CorsairDestroyer ×2done 14:13
    73. Construction BotCon bot
    74. CorsairDestroyer
    75. Construction BotCon bot
    76. Wind
    77. Construction BotCon bot
    78. CorsairDestroyer
    79. Wind
    80. Con turret
    81. Construction BotCon bot
    82. Con turret
    83. Wind
    84. Advanced ShipyardAdvanced Shipyardnot finished by 15:00
    85. Construction BotCon bot
    86. Converter
    87. Con turret

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is krtf's (45 OS, 24/09/2026); 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 4:26 · 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

krtf

44.9 OS · 24/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
687 metal received · 18491 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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