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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 · 486 distinct matches · 107 players · 59% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 553 · 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 486 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 3:31–7:00

    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 · 6 steps
    1. Tidal ×10for Suicide front
    2. Wind ×2
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×3
    5. Energy storage
    6. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:37 · 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 (48%) · 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 · 210 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    2. Wind ×2
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Wind ×2
    5. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    6. Wind
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Wind
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Wind
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. Wind
    13. Construction BotCon bot
    14. Wind ×10
    15. Converter
    16. Wind ×2
    17. Converter ×2
    18. Wind ×2
    19. Converter
    20. Wind
    21. Converter
    22. Wind ×2
    23. Converter
    24. Wind
    25. Bot LabBot Labnot finished by 15:00
    26. Wind
    27. Converter
    28. Wind ×3
    29. Converter
    30. Wind ×3
    31. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:59 · typical 9:54
    32. Wind
    33. Converter
    34. Wind ×3
    35. Converter
    36. Wind ×2
    37. Converter
    38. Wind ×4
    39. Converter
    40. Wind ×2
    41. Bot LabBot Labdone 8:24
    42. Converter
    43. Wind ×2
    44. Converter
    45. Wind ×2
    46. TickTick ×2
    47. Wind ×2
    48. TickTick
    49. Converter
    50. TickTick ×2
    51. Wind ×2
    52. TickTick ×3
    53. Converter
    54. Wind ×2
    55. TickTick ×3
    56. Wind ×2
    57. TickTick
    58. Converter
    59. TickTick ×2
    60. Wind ×2
    61. TickTick ×3
    62. Wind ×2
    63. Converter
    64. TickTick
    65. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 9:28
    66. Wind ×2
    67. Converter
    68. Wind ×2
    69. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    70. Wind ×2
    71. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    72. Con turret
    73. Converter
    74. Wind ×4
    75. Converter
    76. Wind ×2
    77. Converter
    78. Wind ×2
    79. Con turret
    80. Wind ×2
    81. Converter
    82. Wind ×4
    83. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    84. Converter
    85. Con turret
    86. Wind ×4
    87. Converter
    88. Wind ×2
    89. Converter
    90. Wind ×2
    91. Converter
    92. Wind ×2
    93. Con turret
    94. Wind ×2
    95. Advanced Vehicle PlantAdvanced Vehicle Plantdone 12:01
    96. Converter
    97. Con turret
    98. Wind ×2
    99. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    100. Con turret
    101. Wind ×2
    102. Converter
    103. Wind ×2
    104. Converter
    105. Wind ×4
    106. Converter
    107. Wind ×2
    108. Converter
    109. Wind
    110. MauserMauser
    111. Wind ×3
    112. Converter
    113. Wind
    114. MauserMauser
    115. Wind ×4
    116. Converter
    117. Wind
    118. MauserMauser
    119. Wind ×3
    120. MauserMauser
    121. Wind
    122. Converter
    123. Wind
    124. MauserMauser
    125. Wind ×2
    126. UmbraJammer
    127. Wind ×2
    128. Converter
    129. Wind ×2
    130. ProphetRadar vehicle
    131. Wind ×2
    132. MauserMauser
    133. Wind ×2
    134. Converter
    135. Wind ×2
    136. MauserMauser
    137. Wind ×4
    138. MauserMauser
    139. Wind ×2
    140. Converter
    141. Wind
    142. MauserMauser
    143. Con turret
    144. Wind ×3
    145. Con turret
    146. Wind
    147. Converter
    148. MauserMauser
    149. Wind
    150. Con turret
    151. Wind ×3
    152. Con turret
    153. MauserMauser
    154. Wind ×2
    155. Converter
    156. Con turret
    157. Wind ×4
    158. MauserMauser
    159. Wind
    160. Converter
    161. MauserMauser
    162. Wind ×4
    163. MauserMauser
    164. Converter
    165. Wind
    166. Converter
    167. Wind ×2
    168. MauserMauser
    169. Wind
    170. Converter
    171. Wind ×3
    172. MauserMauser
    173. Converter
    174. Wind ×2
    175. Converter
    176. MauserMauser
    177. Wind ×3
    178. Converter
    179. Wind ×2
    180. MauserMauser
    181. Wind ×2
    182. Converter ×2
    183. Wind ×2
    184. MauserMauser
    185. Wind ×3
    186. MauserMauser
    187. Wind ×3
    188. Converter ×2
    189. Wind
    190. MauserMauser
    191. Wind ×3
    192. Converter
    193. MauserMauser
    194. Wind ×2
    195. Converter ×2
    196. Wind ×3
    197. MauserMauser
    198. Wind
    199. Converter
    200. Wind ×2
    201. Converter
    202. Wind
    203. MauserMauser
    204. Wind ×2
    205. Converter
    206. Wind ×3
    207. MauserMauser
    208. Wind ×3
    209. Converter
    210. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Viltrum's (41 OS, 27/09/2026); 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 4:28 · in 31% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:44 · in 39% 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 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

553 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027300
3:0082000
4:00151000
5:00223100
6:00298400
7:0038434590
8:0047571240138
9:0057191965375
10:0069002780713
11:00840432701147
12:001035735791578
13:001262541961940
14:001497947632417
15:001768153183015
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

41.3 OS · 27/09/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
3958 metal received · 69234 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:36Middle 50%: 3:31–7:00 · n=497
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:38 · n=501

Played most by

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