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Standard air

Cortex Air build order · Supreme Isthmus

The role's baseline: Aircraft Plant immediately, transports and scouts for the team first, Advanced Metal Extractor and Fusion Reactor on a normal timeline, transitioning into Valiant fighter coverage over the game.

Usually transports first (72%)

#eco #team support #air · 583 distinct matches · 119 players · 79% of Cortex Air games · team won 47% of 655 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Aircraft Plant by 1:23

  1. Take 3 mex and open straight into Aircraft Plant.
  2. Finish Aircraft Plant, start pumping Valiant for escort duty.
  3. Get T2 constructor going to scale eco alongside air production.
  4. Add Advanced Metal Extractor to keep pace with team's economy.
  5. Bring Fusion Reactor online, keep making Hercules and Finch for allies.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 583 GAMES
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
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 Aircraft Plant

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor3Mex
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    Order
    1. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plant after 3 mex, 4 winddone ~1:24, middle half 1:13–1:35

    Some games also: energy storage (39%)

    By 1:03 in all: 3 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind ×6
    3. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 1:28 · typical 1:24
  2. 2

    Aircraft Plant to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine9Wind
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Construction Aircraft1 Con aircraft
    Army
    • Valiant5 Valiant
    • Finch2 Finch for allies
    • Hercules2 Light transport for allies
    • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport for allies
    • Shuriken1 Shuriken

    Some games also: energy storage (45%) · light transport (44%) · converter (39%) · con turret (33%)

    By 5:00 in all: 3 mex · 1 mex · 13 wind · 3 wind · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 25 steps
    1. FinchFinchfor Geo sea
    2. HerculesLight transportfor Geo sea
    3. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    4. FinchFinch
    5. Con turret
    6. Wind
    7. FinchFinch
    8. Wind ×3
    9. ValiantValiant
    10. Con turret
    11. ValiantValiant
    12. HerculesLight transport
    13. Mex
    14. Energy storage
    15. HerculesLight transport
    16. HerculesLight transportfor Tech
    17. ValiantValiant
    18. Wind
    19. Wind
    20. ValiantValiant
    21. Wind ×6
    22. Con turret
    23. Wind ×2
    24. Energy storage
    25. Wind ×7
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine20Wind
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    • Energy Converter6Converter
    Order
    1. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plant after 18 wind, 17 wind, 6 converterin 57% of games
    Builders
    • Construction Turret4 Con turret
    Army
    • Valiant9 Valiant
    • Shuriken1 Shuriken

    Some games also: con aircraft (35%) · fusion (34%) · light transport (31%)

    By 10:00 in all: 3 mex · 1 mex · 24 wind · 20 wind · 8 converter · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 303 steps
    1. Wind
    2. Converter ×4
    3. ValiantValiant
    4. Converter
    5. ValiantValiant ×2
    6. Converter
    7. ValiantValiant
    8. Converter
    9. ValiantValiant
    10. Converter ×2
    11. Wind
    12. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×2done 6:28 · typical 6:48
    13. Wind ×2
    14. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    15. Wind
    16. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    17. Bot LabBot Labdone 7:34
    18. Construction BotCon bot ×10
    19. Wind ×3
    20. Construction BotCon bot
    21. Wind
    22. Construction BotCon bot
    23. Wind ×3
    24. Construction BotCon bot
    25. Wind ×3
    26. Construction BotCon bot
    27. Wind ×3
    28. Construction BotCon bot
    29. Wind ×2
    30. Construction BotCon bot
    31. Wind ×2
    32. Con turret
    33. Wind ×4
    34. Con turret
    35. Wind ×2
    36. Construction BotCon bot
    37. Wind ×4
    38. Con turret
    39. Wind ×3
    40. Con turret
    41. Wind ×6
    42. Con turret
    43. Wind ×2
    44. Con turret
    45. Wind ×4
    46. Construction BotCon bot
    47. Wind ×3
    48. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 9:45
    49. Wind ×16
    50. Energy storage
    51. Wind ×5
    52. ValiantValiant
    53. Energy storage
    54. Wind
    55. ValiantValiant
    56. Wind ×3
    57. ValiantValiant
    58. Wind ×6
    59. ValiantValiant
    60. Wind ×2
    61. Con turret
    62. Wind
    63. ValiantValiant
    64. Wind ×5
    65. Converter
    66. Wind
    67. ValiantValiant
    68. Wind
    69. Converter
    70. ValiantValiant
    71. Wind ×2
    72. ValiantValiant
    73. Converter
    74. Wind ×2
    75. ValiantValiant
    76. Wind
    77. Converter
    78. Wind
    79. ValiantValiant
    80. Wind ×3
    81. Converter
    82. ValiantValiant
    83. Wind
    84. Converter
    85. ValiantValiant
    86. Wind ×4
    87. Converter
    88. ValiantValiant
    89. Wind ×3
    90. ValiantValiant
    91. Wind
    92. Converter
    93. ShurikenShuriken ×2
    94. Wind ×2
    95. ShurikenShuriken
    96. Wind
    97. ValiantValiant
    98. Wind ×4
    99. ValiantValiant
    100. Wind ×2
    101. ValiantValiant ×2
    102. Wind
    103. ValiantValiant ×2
    104. Wind ×4
    105. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    106. Wind ×2
    107. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    108. Wind ×3
    109. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    110. Converter
    111. ValiantValiant
    112. Wind ×4
    113. Converter
    114. Wind
    115. ValiantValiant
    116. Wind ×2
    117. ValiantValiant
    118. Wind
    119. Converter
    120. Wind
    121. ValiantValiant ×2
    122. Wind ×5
    123. ValiantValiant
    124. Wind ×2
    125. ValiantValiant
    126. Wind
    127. ValiantValiant
    128. Wind
    129. Converter
    130. ValiantValiant
    131. Wind ×5
    132. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    133. Wind
    134. ValiantValiant
    135. Con turret
    136. Wind
    137. Converter
    138. Wind ×2
    139. Con turret ×2
    140. Wind ×3
    141. ValiantValiant
    142. Wind ×2
    143. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 12:11
    144. Wind ×2
    145. Converter
    146. ValiantValiant
    147. Wind
    148. Converter
    149. ValiantValiant
    150. Wind
    151. ValiantValiant
    152. Wind ×2
    153. FinchFinch ×2
    154. Wind ×2
    155. Converter
    156. Wind
    157. ValiantValiant
    158. FinchFinch
    159. Wind ×2
    160. ValiantValiant
    161. FinchFinch
    162. Wind
    163. ValiantValiant
    164. FinchFinch
    165. Converter
    166. Wind ×2
    167. ValiantValiant ×3
    168. Wind ×2
    169. ValiantValiant
    170. Wind ×2
    171. ValiantValiant
    172. Wind
    173. Converter
    174. ValiantValiant ×2
    175. Wind
    176. ValiantValiant ×2
    177. Wind ×2
    178. ValiantValiant
    179. Converter
    180. ValiantValiant
    181. Wind ×3
    182. ValiantValiant
    183. Wind
    184. ValiantValiant ×2
    185. Wind ×2
    186. ValiantValiant
    187. Converter
    188. ValiantValiant ×2
    189. Wind ×3
    190. ValiantValiant ×2
    191. Wind ×2
    192. ValiantValiant ×2
    193. Wind
    194. ValiantValiant
    195. Converter
    196. Wind
    197. ValiantValiant ×2
    198. Wind
    199. ValiantValiant
    200. Wind ×2
    201. ValiantValiant
    202. Wind
    203. ValiantValiant
    204. Converter
    205. Wind ×3
    206. ValiantValiant ×2
    207. Wind
    208. ValiantValiant ×2
    209. Converter
    210. Wind
    211. ValiantValiant
    212. Wind
    213. ValiantValiant
    214. Wind
    215. ValiantValiant
    216. Wind ×2
    217. ValiantValiant
    218. Wind ×3
    219. ValiantValiant
    220. Converter
    221. ValiantValiant
    222. Wind
    223. ValiantValiant
    224. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    225. Wind
    226. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    227. Wind ×2
    228. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    229. Wind
    230. Converter
    231. Wind ×3
    232. WhirlwindWhirlwind ×2
    233. Wind ×2
    234. WhirlwindWhirlwind ×2
    235. Converter
    236. WhirlwindWhirlwind ×2
    237. Wind ×4
    238. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    239. Wind
    240. WhirlwindWhirlwind
    241. Converter
    242. Wind ×3
    243. WhirlwindWhirlwind ×3
    244. Wind ×3
    245. Converter
    246. ValiantValiant ×2
    247. Wind ×3
    248. ValiantValiant ×2
    249. Wind
    250. ValiantValiant
    251. Converter
    252. ValiantValiant
    253. Wind ×2
    254. ValiantValiant
    255. Wind ×2
    256. ValiantValiant
    257. Wind
    258. ValiantValiant ×2
    259. Wind ×3
    260. ValiantValiant
    261. Converter
    262. ValiantValiant
    263. Wind
    264. ValiantValiant ×2
    265. Wind ×2
    266. ValiantValiant
    267. Wind ×2
    268. ValiantValiant
    269. Converter
    270. ValiantValiant
    271. Wind
    272. ValiantValiant
    273. Wind ×2
    274. ValiantValiant ×2
    275. Wind
    276. ValiantValiant
    277. Wind
    278. Converter
    279. Wind
    280. ValiantValiant ×2
    281. Wind ×2
    282. ValiantValiant ×2
    283. Wind
    284. Converter
    285. Wind
    286. ValiantValiant
    287. Wind ×2
    288. ValiantValiant
    289. Wind
    290. ValiantValiant
    291. Wind
    292. ValiantValiant ×2
    293. Wind
    294. ValiantValiant
    295. Wind
    296. Converter
    297. ValiantValiant
    298. Wind
    299. ValiantValiant
    300. Wind ×2
    301. ValiantValiant
    302. Wind ×2
    303. ValiantValiant

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is kuraga__prime's (40 OS, 02/10/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Finch2 Finch to Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 1:51 · in 96% of games
  • Hercules3 Light transport to Tech or Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 2:06 · in 99% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport to Beach sea or Pond or Techfirst at 2:25 · in 75% of games

You get

  • Wind Turbine3 Wind from Beach sea or Geo seafirst at 1:39 · in 65% of games
  • Wind Turbine3 Wind from Beach sea or Geo sea or Pondfirst at 1:44 · in 49% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot from Techfirst at 2:20 · in 85% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 6:03 · in 94% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build, running totals by minute

Metal produced

010k20k30k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Enemy metal destroyed

01k2k3k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

01k2k3k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

655 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0039300
2:0092500
3:00145900
4:002055051
5:00276673116
6:003769125167
7:005146190219
8:007021226290
9:009346260342
10:0011817328467
11:0014409438638
12:0017109605950
13:00199519421277
14:002267214281816
15:002558320892709
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

This is the role's standard support job, winning less than half its games while producing little combat impact but reliably feeding transports and scouts to teammates.

  • + Reaches Aircraft Plant almost immediately (1:23), fast T2 constructor by 5:58.
  • + Keeps own losses low (2789 by 15:00) versus other roles.
  • − Destroys only 2027 enemy metal by 15:00, minimal combat contribution.
  • − Fusion Reactor only completes in 57% of games, some games stall on eco.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

kuraga__prime

40.0 OS · 02/10/2026

Open source match ↗

2 received units · includes a constructor
1583 metal received · 118751 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Aircraft Plant1:24Middle 50%: 1:13–1:35 · n=655
Advanced Metal Extractor6:48Middle 50%: 6:21–7:25 · n=629
Fusion Reactor10:55Middle 50%: 9:56–12:17 · n=401

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