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Standard air

Legion air player opens with Drone Plant and builds up economy with an Advanced Metal Extractor around 7 minutes, mostly holding off aircraft production early while supporting the team with transports and later Noctua bombers or other…

Usually no aircraft (77%)

#eco #air #team support · 20 distinct matches · 15 players · 88% of Legion Air games · team won 50% of 22 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Advanced Metal Extractor by 7:11

  1. Take mex and wind, then drop a Legion Drone Plant by 1:22.
  2. Pump Noctua for scouting, escort duty, and shooting down leaks.
  3. Upgrade a mex to Advanced Metal Extractor to scale eco.
  4. Keep Noctua majority in the army; sprinkle in Mosquito and Martyr.
  5. Transition into fus if the game runs long, T2 factory optional.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 20 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 Legion Drone Plant

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor3Mex
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    Order
    1. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plant after 3 mex, 4 winddone ~1:22, middle half 1:13–1:35

    Some games also: energy storage (36%)

    By 1:01 in all: 3 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind ×4
    3. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:12 · typical 1:22
  2. 2

    Legion Drone Plant to 5:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine9Wind
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret
    • Legion Construction Aircraft1 Legion Construction Aircraft
    Army
    • Noctua10 Noctua
    • Noctua2 Noctua for allies
    • Aeolus2 Aeolus for allies
    • Hippotes1 Hippotes for allies

    Some games also: energy storage (50%) · aeolus (50%) · mex (50%) · mex (36%) · martyr (32%)

    By 5:00 in all: 4 mex · 13 wind · 3 wind · 1 energy storage · 1 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 37 steps
    1. Wind
    2. NoctuaNoctua
    3. Wind ×2
    4. AeolusAeolusfor Beach sea
    5. Wind
    6. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    7. Wind
    8. HippotesHippotesfor Beach sea
    9. Wind
    10. NoctuaNoctuafor Beach sea
    11. Wind
    12. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    13. Con turretfor Beach sea
    14. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    15. Wind
    16. NoctuaNoctua
    17. Wind ×2
    18. NoctuaNoctua
    19. Wind ×2
    20. Energy storage
    21. NoctuaNoctua
    22. Wind
    23. NoctuaNoctua
    24. Wind
    25. Con turret
    26. Wind
    27. NoctuaNoctua
    28. Wind ×3
    29. NoctuaNoctua
    30. Wind
    31. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    32. AeolusAeolus
    33. NoctuaNoctua
    34. HippotesHippotesfor Pond
    35. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 5:36 · typical 7:11
    36. NoctuaNoctua
    37. Con turret
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine24Wind
    • Energy Converter9Converter
    Builders
    • Construction Turret3 Con turret
    Army
    • Noctua14 Noctua

    Some games also: wind (45%) · Legion Drone Plant (41%) · aeolus (36%) · mosquito (32%)

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 27 wind · 17 wind · 10 converter · 1 energy storage · 5 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 119 steps
    1. Con turret
    2. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    3. Wind
    4. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    5. Wind ×2
    6. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    7. Converter ×2
    8. Wind ×4
    9. Converter ×4
    10. Wind ×4
    11. Con turret ×2
    12. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 7:38
    13. NoctuaNoctua
    14. Wind
    15. NoctuaNoctua
    16. Wind
    17. NoctuaNoctua
    18. Wind
    19. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    20. Wind
    21. NoctuaNoctua
    22. Wind
    23. NoctuaNoctua
    24. Wind
    25. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    26. Wind ×2
    27. NoctuaNoctua
    28. Wind
    29. NoctuaNoctua
    30. Wind
    31. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    32. Wind
    33. NoctuaNoctua
    34. Wind
    35. NoctuaNoctua
    36. Con turret
    37. NoctuaNoctua
    38. Con turret
    39. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    40. Con turret
    41. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    42. Wind
    43. NoctuaNoctua
    44. Wind
    45. Wind
    46. NoctuaNoctua
    47. Wind
    48. NoctuaNoctua
    49. Wind
    50. NoctuaNoctua
    51. Wind
    52. Wind
    53. NoctuaNoctua
    54. Wind
    55. NoctuaNoctua
    56. Wind
    57. Wind
    58. NoctuaNoctua
    59. Wind
    60. NoctuaNoctua
    61. Wind
    62. Wind
    63. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    64. Con turret
    65. NoctuaNoctua
    66. Wind
    67. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    68. Wind
    69. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    70. Wind
    71. Wind
    72. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    73. Wind
    74. NoctuaNoctua
    75. Wind
    76. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    77. Wind
    78. NoctuaNoctua
    79. Wind
    80. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    81. Wind
    82. NoctuaNoctua
    83. Wind
    84. NoctuaNoctua
    85. BrambleBramble
    86. NoctuaNoctua
    87. Wind
    88. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    89. BrambleBramble
    90. Wind
    91. BrambleBramble
    92. NoctuaNoctua
    93. BrambleBramble
    94. Wind
    95. NoctuaNoctua
    96. Wind
    97. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 11:03
    98. Wind ×4
    99. Wind
    100. Wind ×2
    101. Wind
    102. Wind ×2
    103. Wind
    104. Wind
    105. NoctuaNoctua
    106. Wind
    107. Wind
    108. Wind
    109. NoctuaNoctua
    110. Wind
    111. Wind
    112. Wind
    113. Wind
    114. Wind
    115. Wind
    116. Wind
    117. Wind
    118. NoctuaNoctua
    119. Wind

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

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Noctua2 Noctua to Geo or Geo sea or Techfirst at 1:51 · in 100% of games
  • Aeolus3 Aeolus to Tech or Geo seafirst at 2:07 · in 100% of games
  • Hippotes1 Hippotes to Beach sea or Pondfirst at 2:08 · in 64% of games

You get

  • Wind Turbine2 Wind from Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 1:34 · in 50% of games
  • Wind Turbine3 Wind from Beach sea or Geo seafirst at 1:46 · in 41% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot from Tech or Geo seafirst at 2:24 · in 82% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 6:05 · in 77% 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

22 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0038700
2:0091500
3:00145300
4:0020131640
5:00270346113
6:003646117181
7:004939161232
8:006612280290
9:008967375380
10:0011360413405
11:0013719481585
12:00161436231070
13:00189189491633
14:002211116461895
15:002509020552085
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

This is the role's own standard build, sitting at 50% team wins with steady but unspectacular kill/loss ratios by 15 minutes.

  • + Reliable, near-universal T2 con by 6:06 in the sample.
  • − Only 46 enemy metal destroyed by 5:00, very slow early impact.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

Immort

51.5 OS · 09/09/2026

Open source match ↗

8 received units · includes a constructor
23 metal received · 37075 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Legion Drone Plant1:22Middle 50%: 1:13–1:35 · n=22
Advanced Metal Extractor7:11Middle 50%: 6:46–7:30 · n=18

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