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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 · 485 distinct matches · 107 players · 59% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 552 · 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 485 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 ~5:36, middle half 3:31–7:00

    Some games also: converter (45%)

    By 5:05 in all: 4 mex · 10 wind · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 6 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal ×4
    3. Mex
    4. Converter
    5. Mex ×3
    6. Bot LabBot Labdone 3:20 · typical 5:36
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine16Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret
    • Construction Bot2 Con bot
    Army
    • Tick1 Tick

    Some games also: Lazarus (48%) · converter (45%)

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 31 wind · 1 tidal · 5 converter · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 284 steps
    1. Windfor unknown
    2. Construction BotCon bot
    3. Wind ×2
    4. Windfor unknown
    5. LazarusLazarus
    6. Converter
    7. LazarusLazarus ×2
    8. Construction BotCon bot
    9. Con turret
    10. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    11. Converter ×2
    12. Construction BotCon bot
    13. Wind
    14. Converter
    15. Construction BotCon bot
    16. Wind ×2
    17. Converter
    18. Wind
    19. TickTick
    20. Converter
    21. TickTick
    22. Converter
    23. TickTick
    24. Wind
    25. TickTick
    26. Wind
    27. Converter
    28. TickTick
    29. Wind
    30. TickTick
    31. Wind
    32. Energy storage
    33. TickTick
    34. Converter
    35. Wind ×2
    36. TickTick ×2
    37. Wind ×2
    38. Converter
    39. TickTick
    40. Wind ×2
    41. TickTick
    42. Wind
    43. Converter
    44. TickTick
    45. Wind ×2
    46. TickTick
    47. Wind
    48. Converter
    49. TickTick
    50. Wind
    51. TickTick
    52. Wind ×2
    53. TickTick
    54. Converter
    55. Wind
    56. CenturionCenturion
    57. Wind ×2
    58. Converter
    59. Wind ×5
    60. TickTick
    61. Wind ×2
    62. TickTick
    63. Converter
    64. TickTick
    65. Wind ×2
    66. TickTick
    67. Converter
    68. SentrySentry
    69. Wind ×2
    70. TickTick ×2
    71. Wind ×2
    72. Converter
    73. TickTick
    74. Wind ×2
    75. TickTick
    76. Converter
    77. Wind ×2
    78. TickTick ×2
    79. Wind ×2
    80. Converter
    81. TickTick
    82. Wind ×2
    83. TickTick
    84. SentrySentry
    85. Wind ×2
    86. TickTick
    87. Con turret
    88. Wind
    89. SentrySentry
    90. TickTick
    91. Wind
    92. TickTick
    93. Wind ×2
    94. SentrySentry
    95. Wind ×3
    96. Con turret
    97. Wind
    98. TickTick
    99. Wind ×2
    100. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:49
    101. Wind
    102. SentrySentry
    103. Wind ×2
    104. SentrySentry
    105. TickTick
    106. SentrySentry
    107. TickTick ×2
    108. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    109. TickTick ×2
    110. SentrySentry
    111. TickTick ×2
    112. Wind
    113. TickTick ×3
    114. Wind
    115. TickTick
    116. Wind
    117. TickTick ×3
    118. Wind
    119. TickTick
    120. Con turret
    121. SentrySentry
    122. TickTick
    123. Wind
    124. TickTick ×3
    125. Wind
    126. TickTick ×4
    127. SentrySentry
    128. TickTick ×2
    129. Wind
    130. TickTick ×4
    131. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    132. Construction BotCon bot
    133. Wind ×2
    134. TickTick ×3
    135. Wind
    136. TickTick
    137. Wind
    138. TickTick ×3
    139. Con turret
    140. TickTick
    141. Wind ×2
    142. TickTick
    143. Con turret
    144. Wind
    145. TickTick
    146. Wind
    147. Con turret
    148. TickTick
    149. MaceMace
    150. Wind
    151. Con turret
    152. Wind
    153. MaceMace ×2
    154. Wind ×2
    155. MaceMace
    156. TickTick
    157. Wind ×2
    158. TickTick ×5
    159. Wind
    160. TickTick ×2
    161. Wind
    162. TickTick ×4
    163. Wind
    164. TickTick
    165. Wind
    166. TickTick
    167. Bot LabBot Labdone 11:50
    168. TickTick ×3
    169. Wind
    170. TickTick ×2
    171. Wind
    172. TickTick ×9
    173. Wind
    174. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    175. TickTick ×2
    176. Wind
    177. TickTick ×2
    178. Wind ×2
    179. TickTick ×6
    180. Wind
    181. TickTick ×2
    182. Wind
    183. TickTick ×8
    184. Wind ×2
    185. TickTick ×6
    186. Con turret
    187. TickTick ×2
    188. Wind
    189. TickTick ×2
    190. Con turret
    191. Wind
    192. TickTick ×5
    193. Construction BotCon botfor Suicide front
    194. TickTick
    195. Wind ×2
    196. TickTick ×7
    197. SentrySentry
    198. TickTick
    199. Wind
    200. TickTick ×2
    201. Wind
    202. TickTick ×7
    203. Wind
    204. TickTick ×4
    205. Wind
    206. TickTick ×2
    207. SentrySentry
    208. TickTick ×4
    209. Wind
    210. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 14:55
    211. TickTick ×3
    212. Wind
    213. TickTick ×6
    214. SentrySentry
    215. TickTick ×2
    216. Wind
    217. TickTick ×2
    218. Wind
    219. TickTick ×8
    220. Wind
    221. TickTick ×2
    222. Wind
    223. TickTick ×2
    224. Converter
    225. TickTick ×5
    226. Wind
    227. Converter
    228. TickTick ×3
    229. Wind
    230. TickTick ×7
    231. Converter
    232. Wind
    233. TickTick ×3
    234. Wind
    235. TickTick ×9
    236. Wind
    237. TickTick
    238. Wind
    239. TickTick ×10
    240. Wind
    241. TickTick
    242. Wind
    243. Converter
    244. TickTick ×9
    245. Wind
    246. TickTick ×2
    247. Wind
    248. TickTick ×6
    249. LazarusLazarus
    250. Wind
    251. LazarusLazarus
    252. Wind
    253. Converter
    254. LazarusLazarus
    255. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexfor Suicide front
    256. Wind ×2
    257. LazarusLazarus ×2
    258. Wind ×2
    259. LazarusLazarus
    260. Converter
    261. Wind ×2
    262. LazarusLazarus ×2
    263. Wind ×2
    264. TickTick
    265. Wind ×2
    266. Converter
    267. TickTick ×5
    268. Wind ×2
    269. TickTick ×2
    270. Converter
    271. TickTick ×5
    272. Converter
    273. Wind
    274. TickTick
    275. Wind
    276. TickTick ×2
    277. Converter
    278. TickTick ×4
    279. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    280. TickTick
    281. Wind ×2
    282. TickTick ×3
    283. Converter
    284. TickTick

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Killerassel's (36 OS, 27/09/2026); 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 4:28 · in 31% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:44 · in 39% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 5:03 · in 40% of games
  • Sharpshooter2 Sniper bot from Techfirst at 5:16 · in 42% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 8:18 · 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

552 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027300
3:0082000
4:00151000
5:00223100
6:00298400
7:0038434600
8:0047571245139
9:0057151971377
10:0069002791714
11:00838032701148
12:001035735821584
13:001262341971941
14:001497747652420
15:001762253213019
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

Killerassel

36.0 OS · 27/09/2026

Open source match ↗

3 received units · includes a constructor
1861 metal received · 20060 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:36Middle 50%: 3:31–7:00 · n=496
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:38 · n=500

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