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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Alphacure's (35 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

Alphacure

35.5 OS · 25/09/2026

Open source match ↗

2 received units · includes a constructor
346 metal received · 23755 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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