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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 · 485 distinct matches · 107 players · 59% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 552 · 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 485 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 · 20 steps
    1. Tidal ×10for Suicide front
    2. Mex ×3
    3. Wind ×2
    4. Energy storage
    5. Wind
    6. Mex
    7. Wind ×7
    8. Con turret
    9. Wind ×3
    10. Con turret
    11. Wind
    12. Energy storage
    13. Converter
    14. Wind ×6
    15. Converter
    16. SentrySentry
    17. Converter ×3
    18. SentrySentry
    19. Converter
    20. Bot LabBot Labdone 6:47 · 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 · 123 steps
    1. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    2. PawnPawn ×21
    3. Mexfor Geo sea
    4. PawnPawn ×3
    5. TickTick ×15
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. TickTick ×12
    8. Wind
    9. TickTick ×2
    10. Wind
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. Wind
    13. Solar
    14. TickTick ×2
    15. Wind
    16. TickTick
    17. Wind
    18. TickTick
    19. Wind
    20. TickTick
    21. Wind
    22. TickTick
    23. Wind
    24. TickTick
    25. Wind
    26. TickTick
    27. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    28. Wind
    29. TickTick ×2
    30. Wind
    31. TickTick
    32. Wind
    33. TickTick
    34. Wind
    35. TickTick
    36. Wind
    37. TickTick
    38. Wind
    39. Construction BotCon bot
    40. Wind ×2
    41. LazarusLazarus
    42. Wind ×2
    43. TickTick
    44. Wind ×2
    45. TickTick ×2
    46. Wind
    47. TickTick
    48. Wind
    49. TickTick ×2
    50. Wind ×2
    51. TickTick ×2
    52. HarpoonHarpoon
    53. TickTick
    54. Wind ×2
    55. TickTick ×3
    56. Wind
    57. TickTick ×2
    58. Wind
    59. Construction BotCon bot
    60. Wind
    61. TickTick ×3
    62. Wind
    63. TickTick
    64. Wind
    65. TickTick ×2
    66. Wind
    67. TickTick
    68. Wind
    69. TickTick
    70. Wind
    71. TickTick ×2
    72. Wind
    73. TickTick
    74. Wind
    75. TickTick ×2
    76. Mex
    77. Wind ×2
    78. TickTick
    79. Construction BotCon bot
    80. Wind ×2
    81. Converter
    82. TickTick ×3
    83. Converter
    84. TickTick
    85. Wind
    86. TickTick ×2
    87. Mex
    88. TickTick
    89. Converter
    90. TickTick ×3
    91. Con turret
    92. TickTick
    93. Converter
    94. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 13:59 · typical 9:54
    95. TickTick ×2
    96. Converter
    97. TickTick
    98. Construction BotCon bot
    99. Converter
    100. TickTick
    101. Converter
    102. TickTick ×2
    103. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    104. TickTick
    105. Converter
    106. TickTick ×2
    107. BeholderBeholder
    108. Converter
    109. TickTick ×2
    110. Converter
    111. TickTick ×2
    112. Converter
    113. TickTick
    114. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    115. TickTick
    116. BeholderBeholder
    117. Converter
    118. TickTick ×2
    119. Construction BotCon bot
    120. Converter
    121. TickTick ×2
    122. Converter
    123. TickTick

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Cokeado's (38 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

552 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
7:0038434600
8:0047571245139
9:0057151971377
10:0069002791714
11:00838032701148
12:001035735821584
13:001262341971941
14:001497747652420
15:001762253213019
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

Cokeado

37.6 OS · 27/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
288 metal received · 54644 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=496
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:38 · n=500

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