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Armada Pond build order · Supreme Isthmus

Pond's usual economy-first play: Bot Lab around 5:35, boosting the fronts with tidal/wind, then Advanced Metal Extractor and T1 units to help front.

#eco #team support · 493 distinct matches · 109 players · 60% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 561 · 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 493 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 3:32–7:02

    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 · 5 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Energy storage
    4. Mex ×4
    5. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:05 · 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 (47%) · 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 · 164 steps
    1. LazarusLazarus
    2. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    3. Wind ×2
    4. Con turret
    5. Wind ×6
    6. SentrySentry
    7. Wind ×2
    8. SentrySentry
    9. Wind ×7
    10. SentrySentry
    11. Converter
    12. Wind
    13. Converter
    14. SentrySentry
    15. Converter ×2
    16. Wind ×2
    17. Mexfor Suicide front
    18. Wind
    19. SentrySentry
    20. Wind ×2
    21. SentrySentry
    22. Wind ×3
    23. Bot LabBot Labdone 8:14
    24. Con turret
    25. TickTick
    26. PawnPawn
    27. TickTick
    28. PawnPawn
    29. TickTick
    30. PawnPawn
    31. TickTick
    32. PawnPawn
    33. TickTick
    34. PawnPawn
    35. TickTick
    36. PawnPawn
    37. TickTick
    38. PawnPawn
    39. TickTick
    40. PawnPawn
    41. Wind
    42. TickTick
    43. PawnPawn
    44. Wind
    45. TickTick
    46. Wind
    47. PawnPawn
    48. TickTick
    49. Wind
    50. PawnPawn
    51. Wind
    52. TickTick
    53. PawnPawn
    54. Wind
    55. TickTick
    56. PawnPawn
    57. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:33 · typical 9:54
    58. TickTick
    59. Wind
    60. PawnPawn
    61. Converter
    62. TickTick
    63. PawnPawn
    64. Converter
    65. TickTick
    66. Wind
    67. PawnPawn
    68. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    69. TickTick
    70. Wind
    71. PawnPawn
    72. Wind
    73. TickTick
    74. Wind
    75. PawnPawn
    76. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    77. Wind
    78. SentrySentry
    79. TickTick
    80. SentrySentry
    81. PawnPawn
    82. Wind
    83. TickTick
    84. PawnPawn
    85. Wind
    86. TickTick
    87. SentrySentry
    88. Converter
    89. PawnPawn
    90. TickTick
    91. Converter
    92. PawnPawn
    93. Wind
    94. TickTick
    95. Wind
    96. PawnPawn
    97. Wind
    98. TickTick
    99. PawnPawn
    100. NettleNettle
    101. Wind
    102. TickTick
    103. PawnPawn
    104. Con turret
    105. NettleNettle
    106. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    107. Wind ×2
    108. TickTick
    109. PawnPawn
    110. Wind
    111. Con turret
    112. Converter
    113. TickTick
    114. PawnPawn
    115. TickTick
    116. Con turret
    117. Converter
    118. PawnPawn
    119. TickTick
    120. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 13:19
    121. Wind
    122. PawnPawn
    123. Wind
    124. TickTick
    125. Con turret
    126. PawnPawn
    127. Wind
    128. TickTick
    129. Wind
    130. PawnPawn
    131. StoutStout
    132. TickTick
    133. Con turret
    134. PawnPawn
    135. Wind
    136. TickTick
    137. PawnPawn
    138. BlitzBlitz
    139. Wind
    140. TickTick
    141. StoutStout
    142. PawnPawn
    143. Mexfor Suicide front
    144. BlitzBlitz
    145. TickTick
    146. Wind
    147. StoutStout
    148. PawnPawn
    149. BlitzBlitz
    150. TickTick
    151. StoutStout
    152. PawnPawn
    153. Converter
    154. BlitzBlitz
    155. TickTick
    156. Fusion ReactorFusionnot finished by 15:00
    157. StoutStout
    158. PawnPawn
    159. Converter
    160. Wind
    161. BlitzBlitz
    162. TickTick
    163. Con turret
    164. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is OldSpanker's (50 OS, 28/08/2026); 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 30% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:43 · in 38% 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 93% 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

561 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027300
3:0081900
4:00151000
5:00223100
6:00298400
7:0038484540
8:0047571240130
9:0057101965370
10:0069102763713
11:00841732701149
12:001038635791578
13:001269541841940
14:001506647452423
15:001770253143022
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

OldSpanker

49.8 OS · 28/08/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
148 metal received · 62779 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:36Middle 50%: 3:32–7:02 · n=504
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:38 · n=509

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