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Armada Pond build order · Supreme Isthmus

Pond's usual economy-first play: Bot Lab around 5:35, boosting the fronts with tidal/wind, then Advanced Metal Extractor and T1 units to help front.

#eco #team support · 501 distinct matches · 110 players · 60% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 569 · 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 501 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 ~5:37, middle half 3:32–7:03

    Some games also: converter (45%)

    By 5:08 in all: 4 mex · 10 wind · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 84 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal
    3. Mex ×3
    4. Mexfor Geo
    5. Energy storage
    6. Mex
    7. Wind ×2
    8. Con turret
    9. Wind
    10. Con turret
    11. Wind ×18
    12. Converter
    13. Wind ×2
    14. Converter
    15. Wind
    16. Converter ×2
    17. Wind
    18. Converter
    19. Wind ×19
    20. Converter ×6
    21. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 7:17
    22. RoverScout ×14
    23. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:22 · typical 9:54
    24. RoverScout ×3
    25. Con turret
    26. RoverScout
    27. Energy storage
    28. RoverScout ×8
    29. Con turret
    30. RoverScout ×8
    31. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    32. Wind
    33. RoverScout ×2
    34. Wind
    35. RoverScout ×3
    36. Wind
    37. RoverScout ×6
    38. Wind
    39. RoverScout ×2
    40. Wind
    41. RoverScout
    42. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    43. RoverScout
    44. Wind
    45. RoverScout ×6
    46. Wind
    47. RoverScout ×2
    48. Wind
    49. RoverScout ×2
    50. Wind
    51. RoverScout ×6
    52. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    53. RoverScout ×3
    54. Construction VehicleCon vehicle ×2
    55. RoverScout ×2
    56. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    57. Wind
    58. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    59. Wind
    60. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    61. Wind
    62. RoverScout ×2
    63. Wind
    64. RoverScout ×2
    65. Wind
    66. RoverScout ×3
    67. Wind
    68. RoverScout ×2
    69. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    70. BlitzBlitz ×2
    71. Wind
    72. BlitzBlitz ×3
    73. Wind
    74. BlitzBlitz ×2
    75. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 13:47
    76. BlitzBlitz
    77. Wind
    78. BlitzBlitz ×2
    79. Wind
    80. BlitzBlitz ×3
    81. Wind
    82. BlitzBlitz ×3
    83. Wind
    84. Bot LabBot Labdone 13:52 · typical 5:37
  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 (47%) · 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 · 26 steps
    1. BlitzBlitz ×2
    2. Wind
    3. BlitzBlitz ×2
    4. Wind ×2
    5. CitadelAnti-nukenot finished by 15:00
    6. Bot LabBot Labdone 14:06
    7. Wind
    8. LazarusLazarus ×2
    9. Converter
    10. LazarusLazarus ×3
    11. Converter
    12. LazarusLazarus
    13. Converter ×3
    14. Con turret
    15. LazarusLazarus ×2
    16. Converter
    17. LazarusLazarus
    18. Converter ×2
    19. Con turret
    20. LazarusLazarus
    21. Converter
    22. Con turret
    23. Converter
    24. LazarusLazarus ×2
    25. Converter ×2
    26. LazarusLazarus

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is UsurpeR's (44 OS, 30/09/2026); 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

  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:43 · in 38% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 5:03 · in 40% of games
  • Sharpshooter2 Sniper bot from Techfirst at 5:16 · in 41% 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

569 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027300
3:0081900
4:00150900
5:00223100
6:00298400
7:0038484520
8:0047561254138
9:0057101982369
10:0069072780711
11:00841432701147
12:001037935851578
13:001269541961942
14:001506047422426
15:001770052943029
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

UsurpeR

44.4 OS · 30/09/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
848 metal received · 76971 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:37Middle 50%: 3:32–7:03 · n=511
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:39 · n=516

Played most by

Viltrum45games of this buildTeaner39games of this buildUsurpeR28games of this buildzeus_on_god23games of this buildRogShotz20games of this build