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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 · 9 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Wind ×3
    3. Naval Energy Storage
    4. Mex ×4
    5. Converter ×4
    6. Wind ×3
    7. Converter ×2
    8. Wind ×6
    9. Bot LabBot Labdone 5:36 · 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 · 126 steps
    1. Wind
    2. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    3. Wind
    4. PawnPawn
    5. Wind
    6. PawnPawn
    7. Wind
    8. TickTick
    9. PawnPawn
    10. Wind
    11. PawnPawn
    12. Wind
    13. TickTick
    14. Wind
    15. PawnPawn
    16. Wind
    17. PawnPawn
    18. TickTick
    19. Wind
    20. PawnPawn
    21. Wind
    22. Converter
    23. Wind ×3
    24. Converter
    25. Wind ×2
    26. Converter
    27. Wind ×2
    28. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:50 · typical 9:56
    29. Wind
    30. Con turret ×3
    31. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    32. Wind
    33. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    34. Wind ×7
    35. Con turret
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    37. Con turret
    38. Bot LabBot Labdone 10:20
    39. PawnPawn ×2
    40. TickTick
    41. PawnPawn ×2
    42. TickTick
    43. PawnPawn ×2
    44. LazarusLazarus ×2
    45. Converter
    46. TickTick
    47. PawnPawn ×2
    48. Construction BotCon bot
    49. Wind
    50. TickTick
    51. Wind
    52. PawnPawn
    53. Converter
    54. Con turret
    55. PawnPawn
    56. Wind
    57. Con turret
    58. TickTick
    59. Wind
    60. PawnPawn ×2
    61. Bot LabBot Labdone 11:22
    62. Converter
    63. Wind
    64. TickTick
    65. PawnPawn ×2
    66. Wind
    67. TickTick
    68. PawnPawn
    69. Wind
    70. PawnPawn
    71. TickTick
    72. Wind
    73. PawnPawn
    74. Converter
    75. Wind
    76. PawnPawn
    77. TickTick
    78. PawnPawn ×4
    79. Wind
    80. TickTick ×2
    81. PawnPawn ×4
    82. Wind
    83. TickTick
    84. Converter
    85. TickTick
    86. PawnPawn ×4
    87. TickTick
    88. Bot LabBot Labdone 12:06
    89. TickTick
    90. Wind
    91. PawnPawn ×4
    92. Wind
    93. TickTick
    94. PawnPawn
    95. Converter
    96. TickTick
    97. PawnPawn ×3
    98. Wind
    99. PawnPawn
    100. Con turret
    101. TickTick
    102. PawnPawn ×3
    103. Con turret
    104. PawnPawn
    105. Wind
    106. PawnPawn
    107. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 13:41
    108. PawnPawn
    109. Con turret
    110. LazarusLazarus ×3
    111. PawnPawn ×4
    112. Wind
    113. Con turret
    114. PawnPawn
    115. Con turret
    116. PawnPawn ×5
    117. Wind
    118. PawnPawn ×2
    119. Con turret
    120. PawnPawn ×20
    121. LazarusLazarus ×3
    122. Wind
    123. PawnPawn ×9
    124. Wind
    125. PawnPawn ×11
    126. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [Grump]Grumpiness's (50 OS, 19/09/2026); 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

[Grump]Grumpiness

49.6 OS · 19/09/2026

Open source match ↗

2 received units · includes a constructor
64 metal received · 97711 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

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