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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 · 4 steps
    1. Tidal ×9
    2. Mex ×4
    3. Wind ×2
    4. Bot LabBot Labdone 2:59 · 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 · 168 steps
    1. Construction BotCon botfor Geo sea
    2. Energy storage
    3. Wind
    4. Construction BotCon bot
    5. Wind ×3
    6. Construction BotCon bot
    7. Wind ×2
    8. LazarusLazarus
    9. Wind ×2
    10. Con turret
    11. Wind
    12. LazarusLazarus
    13. Wind ×29
    14. Metal storage
    15. Wind ×3
    16. Converter
    17. Wind
    18. Converter
    19. Wind ×5
    20. Con turret
    21. Wind ×3
    22. Con turret
    23. Wind
    24. Con turret
    25. Wind ×4
    26. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×3done 10:11 · typical 9:56
    27. Advanced solar
    28. Con turret ×2
    29. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    30. Bot LabBot Labdone 11:38
    31. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 11:53
    32. LazarusLazarus
    33. BlitzBlitz
    34. LazarusLazarus
    35. BlitzBlitz
    36. LazarusLazarus
    37. BlitzBlitz
    38. LazarusLazarus
    39. SentrySentry
    40. BlitzBlitz
    41. LazarusLazarus
    42. BlitzBlitz
    43. SentrySentry
    44. TickTick
    45. BlitzBlitz
    46. TickTick
    47. Converter
    48. BlitzBlitz
    49. TickTick
    50. BlitzBlitz
    51. TickTick
    52. Converter
    53. SentrySentry
    54. TickTick
    55. BlitzBlitz
    56. Converter
    57. TickTick
    58. BlitzBlitz
    59. TickTick
    60. Converter
    61. TickTick
    62. BlitzBlitz
    63. TickTick
    64. Converter
    65. BlitzBlitz
    66. TickTick
    67. Converter
    68. TickTick
    69. BlitzBlitz
    70. TickTick
    71. BlitzBlitz
    72. TickTick
    73. Converter
    74. BlitzBlitz
    75. TickTick
    76. BlitzBlitz
    77. TickTick ×2
    78. Converter
    79. BlitzBlitz
    80. TickTick ×3
    81. BlitzBlitz
    82. TickTick
    83. Converter
    84. TickTick
    85. BlitzBlitz
    86. TickTick ×2
    87. BlitzBlitz
    88. Converter
    89. TickTick
    90. BlitzBlitz
    91. TickTick
    92. Converter
    93. BlitzBlitz
    94. TickTick ×2
    95. Converter
    96. BlitzBlitz
    97. TickTick ×2
    98. BlitzBlitz
    99. TickTick
    100. Converter
    101. TickTick ×2
    102. BlitzBlitz
    103. TickTick ×2
    104. BlitzBlitz
    105. TickTick
    106. Converter
    107. BlitzBlitz
    108. TickTick
    109. BlitzBlitz
    110. TickTick ×2
    111. Converter
    112. BlitzBlitz
    113. TickTick
    114. BlitzBlitz
    115. TickTick ×2
    116. Converter
    117. BlitzBlitz
    118. TickTick ×2
    119. BlitzBlitz
    120. TickTick
    121. BlitzBlitz
    122. TickTick
    123. Converter
    124. BlitzBlitz
    125. TickTick
    126. BlitzBlitz
    127. TickTick ×2
    128. Converter
    129. BlitzBlitz
    130. TickTick
    131. BlitzBlitz
    132. TickTick
    133. Converter
    134. BlitzBlitz
    135. TickTick ×2
    136. BlitzBlitz
    137. TickTick
    138. Converter
    139. BlitzBlitz
    140. TickTick
    141. BlitzBlitz
    142. TickTick
    143. Converter
    144. BlitzBlitz
    145. TickTick ×2
    146. BlitzBlitz
    147. TickTick
    148. BlitzBlitz
    149. TickTick
    150. CitadelAnti-nukenot finished by 15:00
    151. Converter
    152. BlitzBlitz
    153. TickTick
    154. BlitzBlitz
    155. TickTick
    156. Converter
    157. TickTick
    158. BlitzBlitz
    159. TickTick
    160. BlitzBlitz
    161. TickTick
    162. Converter
    163. TickTick
    164. BlitzBlitz
    165. TickTick
    166. BlitzBlitz
    167. TickTick
    168. Converter

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is RogShotz's (44 OS, 18/08/2026); 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

RogShotz

43.5 OS · 18/08/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
514 metal received · 29239 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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