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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 · 11 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Wind
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×4
    5. Energy storage
    6. Converter
    7. Wind ×2
    8. Converter
    9. Wind ×20
    10. Converter ×4
    11. Bot LabBot Labdone 6:41 · 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. Construction BotCon bot
    2. Converter
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Converter
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Converter
    7. PawnPawn
    8. Wind
    9. PawnPawn
    10. Wind
    11. TickTick
    12. PawnPawn
    13. Wind
    14. PawnPawn
    15. Wind
    16. Construction BotCon bot
    17. Wind
    18. Construction BotCon bot
    19. Wind ×2
    20. Construction BotCon bot
    21. Wind
    22. Construction BotCon bot
    23. TickTick
    24. Wind
    25. PawnPawn ×2
    26. Wind
    27. TickTick
    28. Wind
    29. PawnPawn
    30. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:26 · typical 9:56
    31. PawnPawn
    32. Wind
    33. TickTick
    34. Wind
    35. PawnPawn
    36. Wind
    37. PawnPawn
    38. Wind
    39. TickTick
    40. PawnPawn
    41. Wind
    42. LazarusLazarus
    43. Wind
    44. LazarusLazarus
    45. Wind
    46. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    47. PawnPawn
    48. Wind
    49. TickTick
    50. PawnPawn
    51. Wind
    52. PawnPawn
    53. Wind
    54. TickTick
    55. PawnPawn
    56. Wind
    57. PawnPawn
    58. Wind
    59. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    60. TickTick
    61. PawnPawn
    62. Wind
    63. PawnPawn
    64. Wind
    65. TickTick
    66. Wind
    67. PawnPawn ×2
    68. Wind
    69. TickTick
    70. PawnPawn
    71. Wind
    72. PawnPawn
    73. Wind
    74. TickTick
    75. Wind
    76. PawnPawn
    77. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    78. PawnPawn
    79. Wind
    80. TickTick
    81. Wind
    82. PawnPawn
    83. Wind
    84. PawnPawn
    85. Wind
    86. TickTick
    87. LazarusLazarus
    88. Wind
    89. LazarusLazarus
    90. Wind
    91. Con turret
    92. Wind ×2
    93. LazarusLazarus
    94. Con turret
    95. T2 converter
    96. Wind ×2
    97. LazarusLazarus
    98. Con turret
    99. Wind
    100. Construction BotCon bot
    101. Wind
    102. Con turret
    103. Construction BotCon bot
    104. Wind
    105. Bot LabBot Labdone 12:38
    106. Construction BotCon bot
    107. PawnPawn
    108. Wind
    109. LazarusLazarus
    110. PawnPawn ×2
    111. Wind
    112. TickTick
    113. PawnPawn ×2
    114. TickTick
    115. Wind
    116. PawnPawn ×2
    117. TickTick
    118. PawnPawn ×2
    119. Wind
    120. TickTick
    121. PawnPawn ×2
    122. Wind
    123. TickTick
    124. PawnPawn ×2
    125. TickTick
    126. PawnPawn ×2
    127. TickTick
    128. PawnPawn ×2
    129. Wind
    130. TickTick
    131. PawnPawn ×2
    132. TickTick
    133. Wind
    134. LazarusLazarus
    135. T2 converter
    136. LazarusLazarus ×2
    137. Wind
    138. LazarusLazarus
    139. PawnPawn
    140. Wind
    141. PawnPawn
    142. TickTick
    143. PawnPawn ×2
    144. Wind
    145. TickTick
    146. PawnPawn
    147. Con turret
    148. PawnPawn
    149. Wind
    150. Con turret
    151. TickTick
    152. Wind
    153. PawnPawn ×2
    154. TickTick
    155. Wind
    156. PawnPawn ×3
    157. TickTick ×2
    158. PawnPawn ×2
    159. Wind
    160. PawnPawn ×2
    161. Con turret
    162. TickTick
    163. Wind
    164. Con turret
    165. PawnPawn
    166. TickTick
    167. Fusion ReactorFusionnot finished by 15:00
    168. NettleNettle
    169. PawnPawn ×2
    170. NettleNettle
    171. PawnPawn
    172. TickTick
    173. Bot LabBot Labdone 14:37
    174. TickTick
    175. PawnPawn ×2
    176. Wind
    177. PawnPawn ×2
    178. TickTick ×2
    179. PawnPawn
    180. Bot LabBot Labdone 14:50
    181. PawnPawn ×2
    182. Wind
    183. PawnPawn ×3
    184. TickTick
    185. PawnPawn ×2
    186. Wind
    187. PawnPawn
    188. TickTick
    189. CenturionCenturion
    190. TickTick

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [Grump]Grumpiness's (49 OS, 20/09/2026); 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

[Grump]Grumpiness

49.3 OS · 20/09/2026

Open source match ↗

3 received units · includes a constructor
870 metal received · 27500 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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