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Armada Pond build order · Supreme Isthmus

Economy-first Pond with Bot Lab and Tidal boosting for allies, sending units front and teching into Advanced Metal Extractor as usual.

#eco #team support · 296 distinct matches · 131 players · 15% of Armada Pond games · team won 46% of 303 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Bot Lab by 3:41

  1. Drop tidal and wind turbines fast to start boosting the fronts.
  2. Add mex and keep wind count above 10 for boost.
  3. Put down the bot lab and start pushing basic bots to front.
  4. Open a second bot lab and keep feeding units forward.
  5. Transition into T2 with an advanced mex and switch army to Tick/Pawn/Blitz.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 296 GAMES
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
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
    • Tidal Generator8Tidalfor allies
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    • Tidal Generator1Tidal
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 4 mex, 4 wind, 1 tidaldone ~3:38, middle half 3:12–5:00

    By 3:21 in all: 4 mex · 4 wind · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 7 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal
    3. Energy storage
    4. Tidal
    5. Tidalfor Geo
    6. Mex ×4
    7. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:30 · typical 3:38
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine1Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Bot2 Con bot

    Some games also: con turret (44%) · Lazarus (44%) · converter (35%)

    By 5:00 in all: 4 mex · 8 wind · 1 tidal · 1 converter · 1 energy storage · 1 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 11 steps
    1. Wind ×3
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. LazarusLazarus
    4. Wind ×4
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Converter ×2
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Converter
    9. Con turret
    10. Converter ×3
    11. Construction BotCon bot
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine28Wind
    • Energy Converter6Converter
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret

    Some games also: con bot (50%) · tick (43%) · pawn (34%) · eat Bot Lab (50%)

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 38 wind · 1 tidal · 9 converter · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 184 steps
    1. Converter
    2. Con turret
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Wind
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    6. Wind ×2
    7. Bot LabEat Bot Labreclaimed for its metal
    8. Wind ×13
    9. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:07 · typical 9:03
    10. Wind
    11. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    12. Wind ×4
    13. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    14. Wind ×7
    15. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    16. Wind ×3
    17. Converter
    18. Wind ×4
    19. Converter
    20. Wind ×3
    21. Con turret
    22. Wind ×5
    23. Converter
    24. Con turret
    25. Wind ×2
    26. Converter
    27. Wind ×2
    28. GunslingerGunslingerdone 9:49
    29. Wind ×5
    30. Converter
    31. Wind ×3
    32. Converter
    33. Wind
    34. PawnPawn
    35. Wind
    36. PawnPawn
    37. Con turret
    38. Wind ×3
    39. PawnPawn
    40. Wind
    41. PawnPawn
    42. Converter
    43. GunslingerGunslinger
    44. Wind ×2
    45. Bot LabBot Labdone 10:33
    46. Converter
    47. Wind
    48. Con turret
    49. Wind ×4
    50. GunslingerGunslinger
    51. Converter
    52. Wind ×3
    53. Converter
    54. Wind
    55. PawnPawn
    56. Wind
    57. PawnPawn
    58. Wind
    59. PawnPawn ×2
    60. GunslingerGunslinger
    61. Wind ×2
    62. Converter
    63. Wind ×2
    64. Converter
    65. GunslingerGunslinger
    66. TickTick
    67. Wind
    68. TickTick
    69. Wind
    70. TickTick
    71. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 13:52
    72. TickTick
    73. Mex
    74. TickTick ×2
    75. Wind ×2
    76. TickTick
    77. PawnPawn
    78. TickTick
    79. Converter
    80. TickTick
    81. PawnPawn
    82. Wind ×2
    83. TickTick
    84. PawnPawn
    85. TickTick
    86. PawnPawn
    87. Converter
    88. GunslingerGunslinger
    89. TickTick
    90. Mex
    91. Wind
    92. TickTick
    93. Wind
    94. TickTick ×3
    95. Wind ×2
    96. TickTick
    97. GunslingerGunslinger
    98. TickTick ×2
    99. Converter
    100. TickTick
    101. Wind ×2
    102. TickTick ×2
    103. Converter
    104. TickTick
    105. Wind
    106. TickTick
    107. PawnPawn
    108. Wind
    109. TickTick
    110. PawnPawn ×2
    111. TickTick
    112. PawnPawn
    113. TickTick
    114. Wind
    115. GunslingerGunslinger
    116. Wind
    117. TickTick ×3
    118. Converter
    119. Wind
    120. TickTick
    121. Wind
    122. TickTick ×2
    123. GunslingerGunslinger
    124. NettleNettle
    125. TickTick
    126. Converter
    127. Wind ×2
    128. TickTick ×2
    129. SentrySentry
    130. TickTick
    131. Wind
    132. TickTick
    133. Wind
    134. TickTick
    135. PawnPawn
    136. TickTick
    137. PawnPawn ×2
    138. TickTick
    139. Wind
    140. PawnPawn
    141. Converter
    142. Wind
    143. TickTick
    144. GunslingerGunslinger
    145. TickTick ×3
    146. Converter
    147. Wind ×2
    148. TickTick ×3
    149. GunslingerGunslinger
    150. TickTick
    151. Wind ×2
    152. TickTick ×2
    153. SentrySentry
    154. TickTick ×3
    155. Wind
    156. Converter
    157. TickTick ×3
    158. PawnPawn
    159. TickTick
    160. PawnPawn
    161. TickTick
    162. NettleNettle
    163. Wind
    164. PawnPawn
    165. TickTick
    166. Converter
    167. PawnPawn
    168. TickTick ×2
    169. GunslingerGunslinger
    170. TickTick
    171. Mex
    172. TickTick
    173. Wind
    174. TickTick ×6
    175. Wind
    176. GunslingerGunslinger
    177. Converter
    178. TickTick ×5
    179. Wind
    180. TickTick
    181. Converter
    182. TickTick ×4
    183. Wind
    184. TickTick

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is slimegirl3's (34 OS, 29/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Tidal Generator8 Tidal to Suicide front or Frontfirst at 0:11 · in 94% of games

You get

  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 7:36 · in 84% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build, running totals by minute

Metal produced

010k20k30k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Enemy metal destroyed

01k2k3k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

02k4k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

303 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0026800
3:0080000
4:00147400
5:00218400
6:00299600
7:003916210
8:004952170120
9:006225380316
10:007739611553
11:009678811867
12:001207311321296
13:001454615401874
14:001744821032493
15:002020125763248
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

This is the role's baseline line, winning under half its games with mid economy and modest kills versus losses by 15:00.

  • + Reaches T2 constructor by 8:09 in 91% of games, a reliable tempo.
  • − Team wins only 46% of games, no edge over the role's norm.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

slimegirl3

34.0 OS · 29/09/2026

Open source match ↗

2 received units · includes a constructor
252 metal received · 36512 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab3:38Middle 50%: 3:12–5:00 · n=277
Advanced Metal Extractor9:03Middle 50%: 7:58–10:04 · n=261

Played most by

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