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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 · 14 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×4
    5. Con turret
    6. Wind ×2
    7. Energy storage
    8. Wind ×6
    9. Converter
    10. Con turret
    11. Converter ×3
    12. Wind
    13. Converter
    14. Bot LabBot Labdone 6:06 · 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 · 190 steps
    1. Wind ×3
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. Wind ×2
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. Wind
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Wind
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. Converter ×2
    10. TickTick ×3
    11. Wind
    12. TickTick ×2
    13. Wind
    14. TickTick ×2
    15. Wind
    16. TickTick ×2
    17. Wind
    18. TickTick ×2
    19. Wind
    20. TickTick ×3
    21. Wind
    22. TickTick ×2
    23. Converter
    24. TickTick ×3
    25. Converter
    26. TickTick ×3
    27. Wind
    28. TickTick ×2
    29. Wind
    30. TickTick ×2
    31. Wind
    32. TickTick ×2
    33. Wind
    34. TickTick ×2
    35. Wind
    36. TickTick
    37. Wind
    38. TickTick ×3
    39. Converter
    40. TickTick
    41. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:04 · typical 9:56
    42. TickTick ×2
    43. Converter
    44. TickTick ×12
    45. Wind
    46. TickTick ×5
    47. Wind
    48. LazarusLazarus
    49. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    50. SentrySentry
    51. Wind
    52. LazarusLazarus
    53. Wind
    54. SentrySentry
    55. LazarusLazarus
    56. SentrySentry
    57. Mexfor Suicide front
    58. TickTick
    59. Wind
    60. TickTick ×3
    61. SentrySentry
    62. TickTick ×3
    63. Wind
    64. TickTick
    65. SentrySentry
    66. TickTick
    67. Wind
    68. TickTick
    69. Converter
    70. TickTick ×2
    71. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    72. TickTick
    73. Converter
    74. TickTick ×9
    75. Wind
    76. TickTick
    77. Wind
    78. TickTick ×2
    79. Wind
    80. TickTick
    81. Wind
    82. TickTick ×2
    83. Wind
    84. TickTick
    85. Wind
    86. TickTick
    87. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    88. TickTick
    89. Wind
    90. TickTick
    91. Wind
    92. TickTick
    93. Converter
    94. TickTick ×3
    95. Wind
    96. TickTick ×3
    97. Con turret
    98. TickTick ×2
    99. Con turret
    100. TickTick ×2
    101. Con turret
    102. TickTick ×2
    103. Advanced solar
    104. Wind
    105. TickTick
    106. BeamerBeamer
    107. TickTick
    108. Wind
    109. Converter
    110. TickTick ×2
    111. Advanced solar
    112. Converter
    113. TickTick
    114. Wind
    115. TickTick
    116. Wind ×2
    117. TickTick
    118. Wind
    119. TickTick
    120. Advanced solar
    121. TickTick
    122. Wind ×2
    123. TickTick
    124. Wind
    125. Converter
    126. TickTick ×2
    127. Converter
    128. TickTick ×2
    129. Wind
    130. TickTick ×2
    131. Wind
    132. TickTick ×2
    133. Wind
    134. TickTick ×2
    135. Wind
    136. TickTick ×2
    137. Wind
    138. TickTick
    139. Wind
    140. TickTick ×2
    141. Wind
    142. TickTick
    143. Wind
    144. TickTick ×2
    145. Converter
    146. TickTick ×3
    147. Converter
    148. TickTick ×2
    149. Wind
    150. TickTick ×2
    151. Wind
    152. Con turret
    153. TickTick
    154. Wind
    155. TickTick
    156. Wind
    157. TickTick
    158. Hovercraft PlatformHovercraft Platformdone 14:25
    159. Wind
    160. TickTick
    161. Wind ×2
    162. TickTick
    163. Converter
    164. TickTick ×3
    165. Wind
    166. TickTick ×2
    167. Wind
    168. SeekerSeeker
    169. TickTick
    170. SeekerSeeker
    171. TickTick
    172. Wind
    173. SeekerSeeker
    174. TickTick
    175. Wind
    176. SeekerSeeker
    177. TickTick
    178. Wind
    179. SeekerSeeker
    180. TickTick
    181. Wind
    182. SeekerSeeker
    183. TickTick
    184. SeekerSeeker
    185. Converter
    186. TickTick
    187. Con turret
    188. SeekerSeeker
    189. TickTick
    190. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Nazarid's (36 OS, 06/09/2026); 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

Nazarid

36.4 OS · 06/09/2026

Open source match ↗

23 received units · includes a constructor
108 metal received · 43740 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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