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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 · 473 distinct matches · 104 players · 60% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 541 · 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 473 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 ~5:37, middle half 3:31–7:01

    Some games also: converter (45%)

    By 5:08 in all: 4 mex · 10 wind · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 13 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×4
    5. Energy storage
    6. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 3:38
    7. Construction AircraftCon aircraft ×2
    8. Con turret
    9. Wind
    10. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    11. Windfor Front
    12. StorkLight transport
    13. Wind ×2for Suicide front
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine16Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret
    • Construction Bot2 Con bot

    Some games also: tick (50%) · Lazarus (48%) · converter (44%)

    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 · 111 steps
    1. Wind ×2for Suicide front
    2. Mexfor Front
    3. Windfor Suicide front
    4. Con turret
    5. Wind ×3for Front
    6. Con turret
    7. Wind ×2for Front
    8. Wind
    9. Windfor Front
    10. Con turret
    11. Wind ×3for Front
    12. Wind ×2
    13. Con turret
    14. Wind ×7
    15. Converter
    16. Wind
    17. Converter
    18. Wind
    19. OspreyHeavy transport
    20. Converter
    21. Wind ×2
    22. Converter
    23. Wind
    24. Converter
    25. Wind
    26. Converter
    27. Wind
    28. Converter
    29. Wind ×2
    30. Converter
    31. Wind ×3
    32. Converter
    33. Wind
    34. Converter
    35. Wind
    36. Converter
    37. Wind
    38. Converter
    39. Con turret
    40. Wind ×18
    41. Metal storage
    42. Wind
    43. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:04 · typical 9:56
    44. Wind ×9
    45. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    46. Wind ×5
    47. Mexfor Suicide front
    48. Wind ×4
    49. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    50. Wind ×2
    51. Energy storage
    52. NettleNettle
    53. Wind ×10
    54. Mex
    55. Con turret
    56. Wind
    57. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    58. Wind
    59. Con turret
    60. NettleNettle
    61. Wind
    62. Con turret
    63. Wind
    64. NettleNettle
    65. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    66. Con turret
    67. Wind
    68. Converter
    69. Wind
    70. Advanced Aircraft PlantAdvanced Aircraft Plantdone 12:34
    71. Wind
    72. Converter ×2
    73. Wind
    74. Converter
    75. OracleOracle
    76. Converter
    77. Wind
    78. LicheLichedone 13:17
    79. Mex
    80. Converter
    81. Wind ×2
    82. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 14:06
    83. Wind
    84. Converter
    85. Mex
    86. NettleNettle
    87. Wind
    88. Converter
    89. NettleNettle
    90. Wind
    91. NettleNettle
    92. Converter
    93. Wind ×3
    94. Converter
    95. Advanced Construction AircraftT2 con aircraft
    96. Wind
    97. Converter
    98. Wind
    99. Con turret
    100. Wind
    101. Con turret ×2
    102. Wind
    103. HighwindHighwind
    104. Con turret
    105. Converter
    106. HighwindHighwind
    107. Wind
    108. HighwindHighwind
    109. Con turret
    110. HighwindHighwind
    111. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Horlof's (40 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 4:32 · in 31% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:43 · in 39% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 5:02 · 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

541 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027200
3:0081700
4:00150700
5:00223100
6:00298300
7:0038434600
8:0047501269147
9:0056992025378
10:0068742840714
11:00833732981178
12:001029136611603
13:001261442021959
14:001493647782448
15:001751853403029
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

Horlof

39.5 OS · 09/08/2026

Open source match ↗

1 received units · includes a constructor
381 metal received · 54542 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:37Middle 50%: 3:31–7:01 · n=485
Advanced Metal Extractor9:56Middle 50%: 9:01–10:40 · n=490

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