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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 · 15 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×6
    5. Energy storage
    6. Wind ×2
    7. Converter
    8. Con turret
    9. Converter ×2
    10. Wind
    11. Converter
    12. Wind ×18
    13. Con turret ×3
    14. Converter
    15. Bot LabBot Labdone 7:11 · 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 · 188 steps
    1. Wind ×2
    2. TickTick
    3. Wind
    4. TickTick
    5. Wind
    6. TickTick ×2
    7. Wind
    8. TickTick
    9. Wind ×2
    10. TickTick ×2
    11. Converter
    12. TickTick ×2
    13. Converter
    14. TickTick
    15. Wind
    16. TickTick
    17. Wind
    18. TickTick
    19. Wind
    20. TickTick
    21. Wind
    22. TickTick ×2
    23. Wind
    24. TickTick
    25. Wind
    26. TickTick
    27. Wind
    28. TickTick ×2
    29. Converter
    30. TickTick
    31. Converter
    32. TickTick
    33. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:02 · typical 9:56
    34. TickTick
    35. Wind
    36. TickTick ×3
    37. Wind
    38. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    39. TickTick ×3
    40. Wind
    41. TickTick ×2
    42. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    43. Wind
    44. TickTick ×2
    45. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    46. TickTick
    47. Wind
    48. TickTick
    49. SentrySentry
    50. TickTick
    51. Wind
    52. TickTick
    53. Wind
    54. SentrySentry
    55. TickTick ×2
    56. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    57. Converter
    58. SentrySentry
    59. TickTick
    60. Converter
    61. TickTick ×2
    62. Wind ×2
    63. TickTick
    64. Wind
    65. TickTick ×3
    66. Wind
    67. PawnPawn
    68. Con turret ×2
    69. ShipyardShipyarddone 11:05
    70. TickTick
    71. PawnPawn
    72. TickTick
    73. PawnPawn
    74. TickTick
    75. PawnPawn
    76. Wind
    77. Construction ShipCon ship
    78. TickTick
    79. Wind
    80. PawnPawn
    81. TickTick
    82. PawnPawn
    83. TickTick
    84. Wind
    85. PawnPawn
    86. Wind
    87. TickTick
    88. Wind
    89. PawnPawn
    90. TickTick
    91. Construction ShipCon ship
    92. PawnPawn
    93. Converter
    94. TickTick
    95. PawnPawn
    96. Converter
    97. TickTick
    98. PawnPawn
    99. TickTick
    100. Wind
    101. PawnPawn
    102. Naval Construction Turret
    103. Wind
    104. TickTick
    105. Wind
    106. Construction ShipCon ship
    107. PawnPawn
    108. Wind
    109. TickTick
    110. PawnPawn
    111. Wind
    112. TickTick
    113. PawnPawn
    114. TickTick
    115. Wind
    116. PawnPawn
    117. Wind
    118. Construction BotCon bot
    119. Wind
    120. Naval Construction Turret
    121. Construction ShipCon ship
    122. Construction BotCon bot
    123. Converter
    124. Construction BotCon bot
    125. Converter
    126. Naval Construction Turret
    127. TickTick
    128. PawnPawn
    129. Naval Construction Turret
    130. Wind
    131. TickTick
    132. PawnPawn
    133. Wind
    134. Naval Construction Turret
    135. Construction ShipCon ship
    136. TickTick
    137. PawnPawn
    138. Wind
    139. Naval Construction Turret
    140. TickTick
    141. Naval Construction Turret
    142. PawnPawn
    143. Wind
    144. Naval Construction Turret
    145. TickTick
    146. PawnPawn
    147. Naval Construction Turret
    148. TickTick
    149. PawnPawn
    150. Naval Construction Turret
    151. TickTick
    152. Naval Construction Turret
    153. PawnPawn
    154. Naval Construction Turret
    155. TickTick
    156. Wind
    157. Seaplane PlatformSeaplane Platformdone 13:37
    158. Con turret
    159. PawnPawn
    160. Wind
    161. TickTick
    162. Wind
    163. TsunamiTsunami
    164. PawnPawn
    165. Tidal
    166. TsunamiTsunami
    167. Converter
    168. Tidal ×3
    169. Converter
    170. TsunamiTsunami
    171. Tidal
    172. Con turret
    173. Tidal
    174. Wind
    175. Tidal ×2
    176. Con turret
    177. TsunamiTsunami ×2
    178. Wind
    179. TsunamiTsunami ×3
    180. TickTick
    181. Wind
    182. TsunamiTsunami
    183. PawnPawn
    184. Wind
    185. TickTick
    186. TsunamiTsunami
    187. Wind
    188. TsunamiTsunami

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Viltrum's (41 OS, 15/09/2026); 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

Viltrum

40.9 OS · 15/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
201 metal received · 89912 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

Played most by

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