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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 · 485 distinct matches · 107 players · 59% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 552 · 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 485 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 ~5:36, middle half 3:31–7:00

    Some games also: converter (45%)

    By 5:05 in all: 4 mex · 10 wind · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 13 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Wind ×2
    3. Mex
    4. Wind
    5. Mex ×3
    6. Wind ×4
    7. Energy storage
    8. Wind
    9. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 3:53
    10. BeaverBeaver
    11. Construction VehicleCon vehicle ×2
    12. Naval Construction Turret
    13. Con turret
  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 (48%) · 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 · 98 steps
    1. Wind ×6
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Con turret
    4. Tidal
    5. Converter
    6. Tidal
    7. Converter ×2
    8. Tidal
    9. Converter
    10. Tidal
    11. Converter ×2
    12. Tidal
    13. Converter
    14. Tidal
    15. Converter ×2
    16. Tidal
    17. Converter
    18. Tidal ×8
    19. Con turret
    20. Tidal ×2
    21. Con turret
    22. Tidal ×3
    23. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:49 · typical 9:54
    24. Tidal ×3
    25. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    26. Tidal ×2
    27. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    28. Tidal ×4
    29. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    30. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 11:21
    31. Tidal ×2
    32. BlitzBlitz ×2
    33. Tidal
    34. BlitzBlitz ×2
    35. Tidal
    36. BlitzBlitz ×3
    37. Tidal
    38. BlitzBlitz ×3
    39. Tidal
    40. BlitzBlitz ×3
    41. Tidal
    42. BlitzBlitz ×3
    43. Tidal
    44. BlitzBlitz ×2
    45. Tidal
    46. BlitzBlitz
    47. Construction VehicleCon vehiclefor Geo
    48. Tidal
    49. Construction VehicleCon vehiclefor Geo
    50. Con turret
    51. Construction VehicleCon vehiclefor Geo
    52. Tidal
    53. Construction VehicleCon vehicle ×2for Geo
    54. Tidal
    55. BlitzBlitz ×2
    56. Tidal
    57. BlitzBlitz
    58. Con turret
    59. BlitzBlitz
    60. Tidal
    61. BlitzBlitz ×2
    62. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    63. Tidal
    64. BlitzBlitz ×2
    65. Converter
    66. Tidal
    67. Energy storagefor Geo
    68. BlitzBlitz
    69. Converter
    70. Energy storagefor Geo
    71. BlitzBlitz
    72. Tidal
    73. Converter
    74. BlitzBlitz ×2
    75. Tidal
    76. BlitzBlitz
    77. Converter
    78. BlitzBlitz ×3
    79. Tidal
    80. BlitzBlitz ×2
    81. Converter
    82. BlitzBlitz
    83. Tidal
    84. BlitzBlitz ×3
    85. Converter
    86. Tidal
    87. BlitzBlitz ×3
    88. Converter
    89. BlitzBlitz
    90. Tidal
    91. BlitzBlitz ×2
    92. Converter
    93. BlitzBlitz
    94. Tidal
    95. BlitzBlitz
    96. Converter
    97. BlitzBlitz
    98. Con turret

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is DRM's (44 OS, 26/09/2026); 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 4:28 · in 31% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:44 · in 39% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 5:03 · in 40% of games
  • Sharpshooter2 Sniper bot from Techfirst at 5:16 · in 42% 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

552 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027300
3:0082000
4:00151000
5:00223100
6:00298400
7:0038434600
8:0047571245139
9:0057151971377
10:0069002791714
11:00838032701148
12:001035735821584
13:001262341971941
14:001497747652420
15:001762253213019
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

DRM

44.3 OS · 26/09/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
418 metal received · 58288 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:36Middle 50%: 3:31–7:00 · n=496
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:38 · n=500

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