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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 · 486 distinct matches · 107 players · 59% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 553 · 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 486 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 · 4 steps
    1. Tidal ×7for Suicide front
    2. Tidal
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Bot LabBot Labdone 2:55 · 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 · 160 steps
    1. LazarusLazarus
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. Energy storage
    4. Wind
    5. Energy storage
    6. Wind ×14
    7. Converter
    8. Wind
    9. Converter ×2
    10. Wind
    11. Converter ×2
    12. Wind
    13. Converter
    14. Bot LabBot Labdone 6:38
    15. Wind ×2
    16. TickTick ×5
    17. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:06 · typical 9:54
    18. TickTick ×6
    19. Con turret
    20. TickTick ×5
    21. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    22. TickTick ×6
    23. Con turret
    24. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    25. TickTick ×10
    26. Con turret
    27. TickTick
    28. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    29. TickTick ×2
    30. Con turret
    31. TickTick ×2
    32. Con turret
    33. TickTick ×17
    34. Wind
    35. TickTick
    36. Wind
    37. TickTick ×2
    38. Wind
    39. TickTick
    40. Wind
    41. TickTick
    42. Wind
    43. TickTick
    44. Wind
    45. TickTick ×2
    46. Wind
    47. TickTick
    48. Wind
    49. TickTick
    50. Wind
    51. TickTick ×2
    52. Wind
    53. TickTick ×2
    54. LazarusLazarus
    55. Wind
    56. LazarusLazarus
    57. Wind
    58. TickTick
    59. Wind
    60. TickTick
    61. Wind
    62. TickTick
    63. Wind
    64. TickTick
    65. Wind
    66. TickTick ×2
    67. Wind
    68. TickTick ×2
    69. Wind
    70. TickTick
    71. Wind
    72. TickTick ×2
    73. Wind
    74. TickTick ×3
    75. Wind
    76. TickTick
    77. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 12:35
    78. TickTick ×2
    79. Wind
    80. Construction BotCon bot
    81. TickTick ×8
    82. Con turret
    83. TickTick ×7
    84. Con turret
    85. TickTick ×6
    86. Con turret
    87. TickTick ×4
    88. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 13:00
    89. Con turret
    90. TickTick ×7
    91. Wind
    92. BlitzBlitz
    93. TickTick
    94. Wind
    95. TickTick
    96. Converter
    97. TickTick
    98. BlitzBlitz
    99. Wind
    100. TickTick ×2
    101. BlitzBlitz
    102. Converter
    103. Wind
    104. TickTick ×2
    105. BlitzBlitz
    106. Converter
    107. TickTick
    108. Wind
    109. TickTick
    110. Converter
    111. BlitzBlitz
    112. TickTick ×2
    113. Wind
    114. Converter
    115. BlitzBlitz
    116. TickTick ×3
    117. BlitzBlitz
    118. Converter
    119. TickTick
    120. Wind
    121. TickTick
    122. BlitzBlitz
    123. Converter
    124. TickTick ×2
    125. Wind
    126. Converter
    127. BlitzBlitz
    128. TickTick ×4
    129. BlitzBlitz
    130. TickTick ×3
    131. BlitzBlitz
    132. TickTick ×2
    133. BlitzBlitz
    134. TickTick ×3
    135. BlitzBlitz
    136. TickTick ×2
    137. BlitzBlitz
    138. TickTick ×3
    139. BlitzBlitz
    140. TickTick ×3
    141. BlitzBlitz
    142. TickTick ×3
    143. BlitzBlitz
    144. Fusion ReactorFusion
    145. TickTick
    146. LazarusLazarus
    147. BlitzBlitz
    148. LazarusLazarus
    149. BlitzBlitz
    150. LazarusLazarus
    151. BlitzBlitz
    152. TickTick ×2
    153. BlitzBlitz
    154. TickTick ×2
    155. BlitzBlitz
    156. TickTick ×4
    157. BlitzBlitz
    158. TickTick ×2
    159. BlitzBlitz
    160. TickTick ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is matje2o's (35 OS, 28/09/2026); 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

553 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
7:0038434590
8:0047571240138
9:0057191965375
10:0069002780713
11:00840432701147
12:001035735791578
13:001262541961940
14:001497947632417
15:001768153183015
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

matje2o

35.1 OS · 28/09/2026

Open source match ↗

8 received units · includes a constructor
250 metal received · 139753 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=497
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:38 · n=501

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