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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 · 448 distinct matches · 96 players · 59% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 510 · 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 448 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 ~5:40, middle half 3:31–7:01

    Some games also: converter (44%)

    By 5:10 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
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×2
    5. Bot LabBot Labdone 2:57 · typical 5:40
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 10:00

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

    Some games also: tick (49%) · Lazarus (48%) · converter (43%)

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 31 wind · 1 tidal · 4 converter · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 191 steps
    1. Wind
    2. LazarusLazarus
    3. Wind
    4. Energy storage
    5. LazarusLazarus
    6. Construction BotCon bot ×5
    7. Wind
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. Wind
    10. LazarusLazarus ×2
    11. Wind
    12. Converter
    13. LazarusLazarus
    14. Wind ×4
    15. Converter
    16. Wind ×2
    17. Converter
    18. Wind ×3
    19. Converter
    20. Wind ×2
    21. Converter
    22. Con turret
    23. Wind
    24. RocketeerRocketeerfor Front
    25. Wind
    26. RocketeerRocketeerfor Front
    27. Wind
    28. Converter
    29. RocketeerRocketeerfor Front
    30. Wind
    31. RocketeerRocketeerfor Front
    32. Con turret
    33. Wind
    34. RocketeerRocketeerfor Front
    35. Converter
    36. Wind
    37. Con turret
    38. Wind ×2
    39. Con turret
    40. Converter
    41. Wind ×7
    42. Converter
    43. Wind ×6
    44. Converter
    45. Wind ×6
    46. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 7:43
    47. Converter
    48. Wind ×2
    49. BlitzBlitz ×2
    50. Wind
    51. BlitzBlitz
    52. Wind
    53. BlitzBlitz
    54. Converter
    55. BlitzBlitz ×2
    56. Wind
    57. BlitzBlitz
    58. Converter
    59. Wind
    60. BlitzBlitz
    61. Wind
    62. BlitzBlitz
    63. Wind
    64. BlitzBlitz
    65. Wind ×2
    66. Converter
    67. BlitzBlitz
    68. Wind
    69. BlitzBlitz
    70. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:11 · typical 9:56
    71. Wind ×2
    72. BlitzBlitz
    73. Wind
    74. BlitzBlitz
    75. Wind
    76. Converter
    77. BlitzBlitz
    78. Wind ×2
    79. BlitzBlitz
    80. Converter
    81. Wind ×2
    82. BlitzBlitz ×2
    83. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    84. Wind
    85. BlitzBlitz
    86. Wind
    87. Converter
    88. BlitzBlitz
    89. Wind ×2
    90. Converter
    91. Wind ×2
    92. BlitzBlitz
    93. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    94. BlitzBlitz
    95. Wind ×2
    96. Converter
    97. Wind ×2
    98. BlitzBlitz ×2
    99. Wind
    100. Converter
    101. BlitzBlitz
    102. Wind ×2
    103. BlitzBlitz ×3
    104. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    105. Converter
    106. BlitzBlitz
    107. Wind
    108. BlitzBlitz
    109. Wind ×2
    110. Energy storage
    111. Converter
    112. BlitzBlitz
    113. Wind
    114. BlitzBlitz
    115. Wind
    116. BlitzBlitz ×2
    117. Wind
    118. BlitzBlitz
    119. Converter
    120. Wind
    121. BlitzBlitz ×2
    122. Wind
    123. BlitzBlitz ×2
    124. Wind
    125. BlitzBlitz
    126. Wind
    127. BlitzBlitz
    128. Converter
    129. BlitzBlitz
    130. Wind
    131. BlitzBlitz ×4
    132. Wind
    133. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 12:33
    134. Converter
    135. BlitzBlitz
    136. Wind
    137. Con turret
    138. Converter
    139. Wind
    140. Con turret
    141. Wind
    142. Con turret
    143. Converter
    144. Con turret
    145. Wind
    146. HoundHound
    147. WelderWelder
    148. Converter
    149. Wind
    150. HoundHound
    151. WelderWelder
    152. HoundHound
    153. Wind
    154. WelderWelder
    155. Converter
    156. HoundHound
    157. Wind
    158. WelderWelder
    159. CitadelAnti-nukedone 14:11
    160. HoundHound
    161. CorsairDestroyerdone 13:30
    162. Wind
    163. Converter ×2
    164. Wind
    165. SharpshooterSniper botdone 14:21
    166. CorsairDestroyer
    167. Converter
    168. Wind ×2
    169. Converter
    170. EllysawFrigate
    171. Converter
    172. Wind
    173. CorsairDestroyer
    174. Converter
    175. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    176. Wind
    177. EllysawFrigate
    178. WelderWelder
    179. Wind
    180. Converter
    181. EllysawFrigate
    182. HoundHound
    183. WelderWelder
    184. Wind
    185. EllysawFrigate
    186. HoundHound
    187. CorsairDestroyer
    188. Converter
    189. Wind
    190. WelderWelder
    191. HoundHound

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Erilium's (48 OS, 22/09/2026); 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 4:26 · in 31% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:41 · in 38% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 4:59 · in 40% of games
  • Sharpshooter2 Sniper bot from Techfirst at 5:15 · in 42% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 8:17 · 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

510 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027300
3:0081700
4:00151000
5:00223100
6:00298500
7:0038414800
8:0047421276148
9:0056932025379
10:0068722865720
11:00833433171188
12:001029036841616
13:001259342621966
14:001491447802454
15:001745653243030
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

Erilium

47.9 OS · 22/09/2026

Open source match ↗

56 received units · includes a constructor
390 metal received · 103228 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:40Middle 50%: 3:31–7:01 · n=459
Advanced Metal Extractor9:56Middle 50%: 9:01–10:38 · n=460

Played most by

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