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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 · 10 steps
    1. Tidal ×10for Suicide front
    2. Tidal
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×4
    5. Energy storage
    6. Wind ×14
    7. Energy storage
    8. Converter ×4
    9. Wind ×3
    10. Bot LabBot Labdone 6:53 · 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 · 88 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot ×5
    2. Con turret ×2
    3. AnemoneAnemone
    4. TickTick
    5. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:30 · typical 9:56
    6. TickTick
    7. Con turret
    8. TickTick ×2
    9. Wind ×6
    10. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    11. Wind ×6
    12. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    13. Wind
    14. Bot LabBot Labdone 11:03
    15. Wind ×5
    16. TickTick ×4
    17. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    18. TickTick ×2
    19. Wind
    20. TickTick
    21. Wind ×2
    22. TickTick
    23. Wind
    24. TickTick
    25. Wind
    26. TickTick ×2
    27. Wind ×2
    28. TickTick
    29. TickTickfor Geo
    30. Wind ×2
    31. TickTick
    32. TickTickfor Geo
    33. Wind
    34. TickTick ×2for Geo
    35. Wind
    36. TickTick ×3for Geo
    37. Wind
    38. TickTick ×3for Geo
    39. Wind
    40. TickTick ×5for Geo
    41. TickTick ×6
    42. Wind
    43. TickTick ×3for Geo
    44. Wind
    45. TickTick ×4for Geo
    46. Wind
    47. TickTick ×5for Geo
    48. Wind
    49. TickTick ×2for Geo
    50. TickTick
    51. Con turret
    52. TickTick ×4
    53. Wind
    54. TickTick ×4
    55. Wind
    56. Con turret
    57. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 14:55
    58. TickTick
    59. Con turret
    60. TickTick ×2
    61. Con turret
    62. TickTick
    63. Wind
    64. TickTick ×2
    65. Con turret
    66. TickTick
    67. Wind
    68. TickTick ×2
    69. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 13:36
    70. TickTick ×2
    71. Wind ×3
    72. Converter
    73. Wind ×3
    74. Converter ×2
    75. Wind ×2
    76. Converter
    77. Wind
    78. Converter
    79. Wind ×2
    80. Converter ×2
    81. Wind
    82. Converter
    83. Wind ×4
    84. TickTick ×2
    85. Wind ×2
    86. TickTick
    87. Wind ×3
    88. TickTick

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is AlRelSoulfire's (51 OS, 14/08/2026); 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

AlRelSoulfire

50.9 OS · 14/08/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
296 metal received · 39881 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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