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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 · 11 steps
    1. Tidal ×12for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Energy storage ×2
    5. Wind ×10
    6. Converter ×2
    7. SmugglerJammer bot
    8. Wind ×5
    9. CompassRadar bot
    10. Wind ×5
    11. Bot LabBot Labdone 7:20 · typical 5:36
  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 · 93 steps
    1. TickTick ×14
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. TickTick ×12
    4. NettleNettle
    5. TickTick ×5
    6. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    7. TickTick
    8. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    9. TickTick
    10. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    11. Wind
    12. TickTick
    13. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    14. Construction BotCon bot
    15. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    16. Mexfor Suicide front
    17. TickTick ×2
    18. Wind
    19. TickTick ×4
    20. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:47 · typical 9:54
    21. NettleNettle
    22. TickTick ×2
    23. Wind
    24. TickTick ×5
    25. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    26. TickTick
    27. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    28. Wind
    29. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    30. TickTick
    31. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    32. TickTick
    33. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    34. TickTick ×3
    35. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    36. TickTick
    37. Wind
    38. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    39. Construction BotCon bot
    40. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    41. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    42. TickTick
    43. Wind
    44. TickTick ×9
    45. Wind
    46. TickTick ×6
    47. Wind
    48. TickTick
    49. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    50. TickTick ×2
    51. Wind
    52. TickTick
    53. Construction BotCon bot
    54. Wind
    55. TickTick ×2
    56. Wind
    57. TickTick ×3
    58. Wind
    59. TickTick ×3
    60. Wind
    61. TickTick ×3
    62. Wind
    63. TickTick ×2
    64. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    65. TickTick
    66. Wind
    67. TickTick
    68. Con turret
    69. TickTick
    70. Wind
    71. TickTick ×2
    72. Wind
    73. TickTick ×2
    74. Construction BotCon bot
    75. Wind ×2
    76. TickTick ×4
    77. Wind
    78. TickTick ×2
    79. Fusion ReactorFusionnot finished by 15:00
    80. TickTick ×2
    81. Wind
    82. TickTick
    83. Con turret
    84. TickTick ×3
    85. Wind
    86. TickTick ×4
    87. Wind
    88. Con turret
    89. TickTick ×4
    90. Con turret
    91. Construction BotCon bot
    92. Converter
    93. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Adeus's (37 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

Adeus

37.0 OS · 26/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
647 metal received · 44195 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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