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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 · 10 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal
    3. Mex ×4
    4. Wind ×2
    5. Energy storage
    6. Wind ×5
    7. Converter ×3
    8. Energy storage
    9. Wind ×7
    10. Bot LabBot Labdone 5:15 · 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 · 140 steps
    1. Wind ×2
    2. LazarusLazarus
    3. Construction BotCon bot ×2for Geo
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. CrossbowCrossbow ×2
    6. TickTick
    7. Solar
    8. TickTick ×18
    9. PawnPawn ×4
    10. SentrySentry
    11. PawnPawn
    12. Con turret
    13. PawnPawn ×2
    14. Con turret
    15. SentrySentry
    16. PawnPawn
    17. Con turret
    18. PawnPawn
    19. Metal storage
    20. Con turret
    21. PawnPawn ×2
    22. Wind ×2
    23. PawnPawn
    24. Wind ×3
    25. PawnPawn
    26. Wind ×3
    27. PawnPawn
    28. Wind ×2
    29. PawnPawn
    30. Wind ×2
    31. Mex
    32. PawnPawn
    33. Wind ×2
    34. PawnPawn
    35. Wind
    36. PawnPawn
    37. Wind
    38. PawnPawn
    39. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:36 · typical 9:56
    40. Wind
    41. PawnPawn
    42. Wind
    43. PawnPawn
    44. Con turret
    45. Wind ×2
    46. PawnPawn
    47. Wind ×2
    48. PawnPawn
    49. Mex
    50. Wind
    51. PawnPawn
    52. Wind
    53. PawnPawn ×2
    54. Wind
    55. PawnPawn
    56. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    57. PawnPawn
    58. Wind
    59. PawnPawn
    60. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    61. PawnPawn
    62. Wind
    63. PawnPawn ×2
    64. Wind
    65. PawnPawn
    66. Wind
    67. PawnPawn
    68. Wind
    69. NettleNettle
    70. PawnPawn
    71. Wind
    72. PawnPawn ×2
    73. Wind
    74. PawnPawn
    75. Wind
    76. PawnPawn
    77. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    78. Wind
    79. PawnPawn
    80. Wind
    81. PawnPawn
    82. Wind
    83. PawnPawn
    84. SentrySentry
    85. Wind
    86. PawnPawn
    87. Wind
    88. PawnPawn
    89. Wind
    90. PawnPawn
    91. SentrySentry
    92. Wind
    93. PawnPawn
    94. Wind
    95. PawnPawn
    96. Wind
    97. PawnPawn ×2
    98. LazarusLazarus
    99. Wind
    100. LazarusLazarus ×3
    101. PawnPawn ×15
    102. Mex
    103. PawnPawn ×12
    104. SharpshooterSniper botdone 13:16
    105. PawnPawn ×3
    106. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 14:06
    107. PawnPawn ×4
    108. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    109. PawnPawn
    110. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    111. PawnPawn
    112. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    113. PawnPawn
    114. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    115. PawnPawn
    116. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    117. PawnPawn
    118. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    119. PawnPawn
    120. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    121. PawnPawn ×2
    122. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    123. PawnPawn
    124. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    125. PawnPawn
    126. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    127. PawnPawn
    128. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    129. PawnPawn ×4
    130. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    131. PawnPawn
    132. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    133. PawnPawn
    134. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    135. PawnPawn
    136. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    137. PawnPawn
    138. Con turret
    139. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    140. PawnPawn ×4

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Teaner's (51 OS, 23/09/2026); 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

Teaner

51.4 OS · 23/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
851 metal received · 69969 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

Played most by

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