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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. Tidal ×4
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Energy storage
    5. Wind ×4
    6. Converter
    7. Wind ×4
    8. Converter ×3
    9. Bot LabBot Labdone 4:55 · 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 · 131 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    2. TickTick ×5
    3. Wind
    4. TickTick ×3
    5. Wind
    6. TickTick ×2
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Wind
    9. Construction BotCon bot
    10. Wind
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. Converter
    13. TickTick ×7
    14. PawnPawn
    15. TickTick
    16. PawnPawn ×2
    17. TickTick
    18. PawnPawn ×2
    19. TickTick
    20. PawnPawn ×2
    21. TickTick
    22. PawnPawn ×2
    23. TickTick
    24. PawnPawn ×2
    25. TickTick
    26. PawnPawn ×2
    27. TickTick
    28. PawnPawn ×2
    29. TickTick
    30. PawnPawn ×2
    31. TickTick
    32. PawnPawn ×2
    33. TickTick
    34. PawnPawn ×2
    35. TickTick
    36. PawnPawn
    37. Con turret
    38. PawnPawn
    39. TickTick
    40. PawnPawn
    41. SentrySentry
    42. PawnPawn
    43. Metal storage
    44. TickTick
    45. PawnPawn ×2
    46. TickTick
    47. PawnPawn ×2
    48. TickTick
    49. PawnPawn ×2
    50. TickTick
    51. Con turret
    52. PawnPawn ×2
    53. TickTick
    54. PawnPawn
    55. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:29
    56. PawnPawn
    57. TickTick
    58. Wind
    59. PawnPawn
    60. Wind
    61. PawnPawn
    62. Wind
    63. TickTick
    64. PawnPawn
    65. Wind
    66. PawnPawn
    67. Converter
    68. TickTick
    69. PawnPawn
    70. Converter
    71. PawnPawn
    72. Wind
    73. TickTick
    74. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    75. PawnPawn
    76. Wind
    77. PawnPawn
    78. TickTick
    79. Wind ×6
    80. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    81. Converter ×2
    82. Wind ×3
    83. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    84. Wind ×5
    85. Converter
    86. Bot LabBot Labdone 12:19
    87. Con turret
    88. Converter
    89. Con turret
    90. Energy storage
    91. Construction BotCon bot
    92. Wind
    93. Con turret
    94. Wind
    95. Con turret ×3
    96. Wind ×5
    97. Converter
    98. Wind
    99. Con turret
    100. Converter
    101. Con turret
    102. Wind ×5
    103. Con turret
    104. Wind ×3
    105. Converter
    106. Con turret
    107. Wind ×3
    108. Converter
    109. Con turret
    110. Wind
    111. Con turret
    112. Wind ×2
    113. Con turret
    114. Wind
    115. Con turret ×3
    116. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 14:52
    117. Converter
    118. Wind ×3
    119. Converter
    120. Wind
    121. Converter
    122. Wind
    123. Converter
    124. Wind ×18
    125. Converter
    126. Wind ×2
    127. T2 converter
    128. Converter ×2
    129. Wind ×2
    130. Converter
    131. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Dad_The_Speedrunner's (37 OS, 18/09/2026); 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

Dad_The_Speedrunner

36.5 OS · 18/09/2026

Open source match ↗

1 received units · includes a constructor
418 metal received · 146803 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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