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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 · 7 steps
    1. Tidal
    2. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×3
    5. Energy storage
    6. Wind ×3
    7. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:44 · 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 · 238 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot
    2. LazarusLazarus
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Converter
    5. Con turret
    6. Converter ×3
    7. Construction BotCon bot
    8. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    9. Wind
    10. Converter
    11. Wind
    12. ShipyardShipyarddone 5:30
    13. Wind ×4
    14. EelSubmarinedone 5:54
    15. Wind ×3
    16. PawnPawn
    17. Wind
    18. TickTick ×2
    19. Con turret
    20. Wind
    21. TickTick ×3
    22. Wind
    23. TickTick
    24. Wind
    25. TickTick ×2
    26. Wind
    27. TickTick ×3
    28. Wind
    29. TickTick ×3
    30. Wind
    31. TickTick ×2
    32. Wind
    33. TickTick ×2
    34. Wind
    35. TickTick ×3
    36. Wind
    37. TickTick ×3
    38. Wind
    39. TickTick
    40. Wind ×2
    41. PawnPawn ×3
    42. Wind
    43. Con turret
    44. PawnPawn
    45. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:14 · typical 9:56
    46. PawnPawn
    47. Wind
    48. PawnPawn ×5
    49. Wind
    50. PawnPawn
    51. Wind
    52. PawnPawn
    53. Wind
    54. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    55. Wind ×5
    56. TickTick
    57. Wind
    58. TickTick
    59. Wind
    60. TickTick
    61. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    62. TickTick
    63. Wind
    64. TickTick ×7
    65. Wind
    66. TickTick
    67. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 9:55
    68. Wind
    69. TickTick ×4
    70. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    71. BlitzBlitz
    72. TickTick
    73. Wind
    74. TickTick
    75. BlitzBlitz
    76. TickTick
    77. Wind
    78. BlitzBlitz
    79. TickTick
    80. Wind
    81. TickTick
    82. BlitzBlitz
    83. TickTick
    84. Wind
    85. TickTick
    86. BlitzBlitz
    87. TickTick
    88. Wind
    89. TickTick
    90. BlitzBlitz
    91. Wind
    92. Energy storage
    93. TickTick
    94. BlitzBlitz
    95. Con turret
    96. TickTick ×5
    97. BlitzBlitz
    98. Wind
    99. Energy storage
    100. TickTick ×2
    101. BlitzBlitz
    102. TickTick ×2
    103. BlitzBlitz
    104. TickTick
    105. Wind
    106. TickTick
    107. BlitzBlitz
    108. TickTick
    109. BlitzBlitz
    110. TickTick
    111. Wind
    112. TickTick
    113. BlitzBlitz
    114. TickTick ×2
    115. BlitzBlitz
    116. TickTick ×2
    117. BlitzBlitz
    118. TickTick
    119. BlitzBlitz
    120. TickTick
    121. BlitzBlitz
    122. TickTick ×2
    123. BlitzBlitz
    124. TickTick
    125. BlitzBlitz
    126. TickTick ×2
    127. BlitzBlitz
    128. TickTick
    129. Con turret
    130. TickTick ×2
    131. Con turret
    132. TickTick
    133. BlitzBlitz
    134. TickTick
    135. Con turret
    136. TickTick ×3
    137. BlitzBlitz
    138. TickTick
    139. Wind
    140. BlitzBlitz
    141. TickTick
    142. BlitzBlitz
    143. TickTick ×2
    144. BlitzBlitz
    145. TickTick
    146. BlitzBlitz
    147. TickTick ×2
    148. BlitzBlitz
    149. TickTick
    150. BlitzBlitz
    151. TickTick ×2
    152. BlitzBlitz
    153. Wind
    154. TickTick
    155. BlitzBlitz
    156. TickTick ×2
    157. BlitzBlitz
    158. TickTick
    159. BlitzBlitz
    160. TickTick
    161. Wind
    162. TickTick
    163. BlitzBlitz
    164. TickTick
    165. BlitzBlitz
    166. TickTick ×2
    167. BlitzBlitz
    168. TickTick
    169. Wind
    170. Bot LabBot Labdone 13:17
    171. BlitzBlitz
    172. TickTick ×3
    173. Wind
    174. TickTick ×4
    175. Wind
    176. BlitzBlitz
    177. TickTick ×4
    178. BlitzBlitz
    179. TickTick ×3
    180. BlitzBlitz
    181. TickTick
    182. Wind
    183. T2 converter
    184. TickTick ×4
    185. Construction BotCon bot
    186. TickTick
    187. BlitzBlitz
    188. TickTick
    189. Wind
    190. TickTick ×2
    191. Construction BotCon bot
    192. TickTick
    193. Wind
    194. TickTick
    195. BlitzBlitz
    196. TickTick ×2
    197. Construction BotCon bot
    198. TickTick
    199. BlitzBlitz
    200. Wind
    201. TickTick
    202. Construction BotCon bot
    203. TickTick
    204. BlitzBlitz
    205. TickTick
    206. Construction BotCon bot
    207. TickTick
    208. Wind
    209. BlitzBlitz
    210. TickTick
    211. Construction BotCon bot
    212. TickTick
    213. BlitzBlitz
    214. TickTick
    215. Wind ×2
    216. Construction BotCon bot
    217. TickTick
    218. BlitzBlitz
    219. TickTick
    220. Construction BotCon bot
    221. TickTick
    222. BlitzBlitz
    223. TickTick
    224. Wind
    225. TickTick ×2
    226. Wind
    227. TickTick
    228. BlitzBlitz
    229. TickTick ×3
    230. BlitzBlitz
    231. Wind
    232. Construction BotCon bot
    233. TickTick
    234. BlitzBlitz
    235. Wind
    236. TickTick
    237. Construction BotCon bot
    238. TickTick

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is EpicTyrannus's (43 OS, 25/09/2026); 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

EpicTyrannus

42.7 OS · 25/09/2026

Open source match ↗

1 received units · includes a constructor
94 metal received · 51103 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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