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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. Solar ×6for Suicide front
    2. Solar
    3. Mex ×3
    4. Wind
    5. Mex
    6. Converter
    7. Wind ×3
    8. Converter
    9. Wind ×2
    10. Energy storage
    11. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:37 · 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 · 126 steps
    1. LazarusLazarus
    2. Wind
    3. Converter
    4. Wind
    5. Construction BotCon bot
    6. Wind
    7. Converter
    8. Wind
    9. LazarusLazarus
    10. Con turret
    11. Construction BotCon bot
    12. Wind ×3
    13. TickTick
    14. Wind
    15. TickTick
    16. Wind
    17. TickTick ×3
    18. Converter
    19. Construction BotCon bot
    20. Wind
    21. Energy storage
    22. Wind ×2
    23. Converter
    24. Wind ×2
    25. Converter
    26. Wind ×3
    27. LazarusLazarus
    28. Converter
    29. Wind
    30. LazarusLazarus
    31. Wind ×3
    32. Converter
    33. TickTick
    34. Wind
    35. TickTick
    36. Wind
    37. Converter
    38. TickTick
    39. Wind ×2
    40. TickTick ×2
    41. LazarusLazarus
    42. Converter
    43. Wind
    44. LazarusLazarus
    45. Wind
    46. Advanced solarfor Suicide front
    47. TickTick
    48. Con turret
    49. TickTick
    50. Metal storage
    51. TickTick ×2
    52. Wind
    53. TickTick
    54. Wind ×3
    55. Construction BotCon bot
    56. Advanced solarfor Front
    57. Wind
    58. Construction BotCon bot
    59. Converter
    60. Advanced solar
    61. Converter
    62. Con turret
    63. Advanced solar
    64. Converter
    65. Advanced solar ×2
    66. Converter
    67. Advanced solar ×2
    68. Converter ×3
    69. Advanced solar
    70. Converter
    71. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×2done 10:59 · typical 9:56
    72. Converter ×2
    73. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    74. Converter ×3
    75. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    76. Converter
    77. Con turret
    78. Converter
    79. Con turret
    80. LazarusLazarus
    81. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 12:17
    82. Converter
    83. Wind ×2
    84. LazarusLazarus
    85. Wind ×2
    86. LazarusLazarus
    87. Wind
    88. GunslingerGunslingerdone 12:30
    89. LazarusLazarus
    90. SentrySentry
    91. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    92. GhostGhost
    93. LazarusLazarus
    94. GunslingerGunslinger
    95. TickTick ×2
    96. ArchangelArchangeldone 12:59
    97. TickTick
    98. SentrySentry
    99. TickTick
    100. GunslingerGunslinger
    101. TickTick ×2
    102. GhostGhost
    103. TickTick ×2
    104. ButlerButler
    105. TickTick
    106. GunslingerGunslinger
    107. TickTick ×2
    108. GhostGhost
    109. TickTick ×2
    110. GunslingerGunslinger
    111. TickTick
    112. AnemoneAnemone
    113. TickTick
    114. GunslingerGunslinger
    115. LazarusLazarus
    116. SharpshooterSniper botdone 14:02
    117. GhostGhost
    118. LazarusLazarus
    119. SharpshooterSniper bot
    120. AnemoneAnemone
    121. LazarusLazarus
    122. SharpshooterSniper bot
    123. LazarusLazarus
    124. Advanced Construction BotT2 con bot
    125. LazarusLazarus
    126. AnemoneAnemone

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is CommandoMan's (37 OS, 12/09/2026); 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

CommandoMan

36.8 OS · 12/09/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
1116 metal received · 156444 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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