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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 · 18 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×2
    3. Wind
    4. Mex ×4
    5. Wind ×6
    6. Converter ×4
    7. Wind
    8. Con turret
    9. Wind ×4
    10. Energy storage
    11. Con turret ×2
    12. Wind ×6
    13. Converter ×6
    14. Wind ×11
    15. Metal storage
    16. Wind
    17. Con turret ×2
    18. Bot LabBot Labdone 8:58 · 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 · 196 steps
    1. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    2. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:18 · typical 9:56
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    5. Con turret
    6. Wind
    7. Con turret
    8. Wind
    9. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    10. Con turret
    11. Wind ×5
    12. Hovercraft PlatformHovercraft Platformdone 10:37
    13. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    14. Wind ×5
    15. SeekerSeeker
    16. Wind ×2
    17. SeekerSeeker
    18. Wind
    19. SeekerSeeker
    20. Wind
    21. SeekerSeeker
    22. Wind
    23. SweeperSweeper
    24. Wind ×2
    25. SeekerSeeker
    26. Wind ×4
    27. SeekerSeeker
    28. Wind ×2
    29. SeekerSeeker
    30. Wind ×3
    31. SeekerSeeker
    32. Wind ×3
    33. SeekerSeeker
    34. Wind ×2
    35. Bot LabBot Labdone 11:43
    36. Wind ×2
    37. SeekerSeeker
    38. Wind
    39. TickTick
    40. Wind
    41. TickTick
    42. Wind ×2
    43. TickTick
    44. Wind
    45. SeekerSeeker
    46. TickTick ×2
    47. Wind ×3
    48. TickTick
    49. Wind
    50. SeekerSeeker
    51. TickTick ×2
    52. Wind ×2
    53. TickTick ×2
    54. SeekerSeeker
    55. Wind
    56. TickTick
    57. Wind ×2
    58. TickTick
    59. SeekerSeeker
    60. TickTick
    61. Wind
    62. TickTick
    63. Wind
    64. TickTick
    65. SeekerSeeker
    66. Converter
    67. TickTick
    68. Wind ×2
    69. TickTick
    70. SeekerSeeker
    71. TickTick
    72. Wind
    73. TickTick
    74. Converter ×2
    75. TickTick
    76. Wind
    77. Converter
    78. TickTick
    79. Wind
    80. TickTick
    81. T2 converter
    82. Wind
    83. TickTick
    84. Converter ×2
    85. TickTick
    86. Converter
    87. TickTick ×3
    88. Converter
    89. Wind
    90. TickTick
    91. Wind
    92. TickTick
    93. Wind
    94. TickTick
    95. Converter ×2
    96. TickTick
    97. Wind
    98. TickTick ×2
    99. Converter
    100. TickTick
    101. Wind ×2
    102. TickTick ×2
    103. Wind ×2
    104. Construction HovercraftCon hovercraft
    105. TickTick
    106. Wind
    107. TickTick
    108. Wind
    109. TickTick
    110. Wind ×3
    111. TickTick ×2
    112. Wind ×2
    113. TickTick
    114. Wind
    115. TickTick
    116. Construction HovercraftCon hovercraft
    117. Wind
    118. TickTick
    119. Wind ×4
    120. TickTick ×2
    121. Wind ×2
    122. TickTick
    123. Wind
    124. RattlesnakeRattlesnakenot finished by 15:00
    125. Wind ×2
    126. TickTick
    127. SeekerSeeker
    128. Wind
    129. TickTick
    130. Wind ×2
    131. SeekerSeeker
    132. TickTick
    133. Wind
    134. TickTick
    135. Wind ×2
    136. SeekerSeeker
    137. TickTick
    138. Wind ×2
    139. SeekerSeeker
    140. TickTick
    141. Wind
    142. TickTick
    143. Wind
    144. SeekerSeeker
    145. Wind
    146. TickTick
    147. Wind ×2
    148. TickTick
    149. SeekerSeeker
    150. TickTick
    151. Wind ×3
    152. TickTick
    153. SeekerSeeker
    154. TickTick
    155. SeekerSeeker
    156. TickTick
    157. Wind ×3
    158. SeekerSeeker
    159. TickTick ×2
    160. SeekerSeeker
    161. TickTick
    162. Wind ×3
    163. TickTick ×4
    164. Wind ×2
    165. TickTick ×2
    166. Converter
    167. TickTick ×2
    168. Wind
    169. TickTick ×2
    170. Converter
    171. TickTick ×3
    172. Converter
    173. TickTick
    174. Converter
    175. TickTick ×2
    176. Converter
    177. TickTick ×3
    178. Wind
    179. TickTick
    180. Converter
    181. TickTick ×2
    182. Wind
    183. TickTick
    184. Wind
    185. TickTick ×3
    186. Wind
    187. TickTick
    188. Wind ×2
    189. TickTick ×3
    190. Wind
    191. TickTick
    192. Wind ×2
    193. TickTick ×3
    194. Wind
    195. TickTick
    196. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is hihimik's (35 OS, 17/09/2026); 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

hihimik

35.3 OS · 17/09/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
182 metal received · 44151 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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