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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 · 5 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Wind ×2
    3. Mex
    4. Wind ×2
    5. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:20 · 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 · 28 steps
    1. MartyrMartyr
    2. Wind
    3. MartyrMartyr
    4. Wind
    5. NoctuaNoctua
    6. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    7. Wind ×2
    8. Energy storage
    9. AeolusAeolus
    10. MosquitoMosquito
    11. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    12. VisionVision ×2
    13. Mex
    14. NoctuaNoctuafor Beach sea
    15. Mex
    16. NoctuaNoctua
    17. AeolusAeolus
    18. Wind
    19. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    20. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    21. Wind
    22. Con turret
    23. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    24. Wind
    25. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    26. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    27. Wind
    28. NoctuaNoctua
  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 · 146 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    2. Wind
    3. HippotesHippotesfor Pond
    4. Wind ×2
    5. Con turret
    6. Wind
    7. NoctuaNoctua
    8. Converter
    9. NoctuaNoctua
    10. MartyrMartyr
    11. Converter
    12. MartyrMartyr ×2
    13. Wind
    14. NoctuaNoctua
    15. Converter
    16. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:16 · typical 7:11
    17. NoctuaNoctua
    18. Wind
    19. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    20. Wind
    21. NoctuaNoctua
    22. Converter
    23. NoctuaNoctua
    24. Wind
    25. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    26. Wind
    27. NoctuaNoctua
    28. VisionVision ×3
    29. NoctuaNoctua
    30. Wind
    31. NoctuaNoctua
    32. Wind
    33. AeolusAeolusfor Beach sea
    34. Converter
    35. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    36. Wind
    37. Converter
    38. NoctuaNoctua
    39. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    40. Converter
    41. NoctuaNoctua
    42. Wind
    43. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    44. Wind
    45. Converter
    46. Wind
    47. Converter
    48. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    49. Wind
    50. Converter ×2
    51. Wind
    52. Converter
    53. Wind
    54. Converter
    55. Wind
    56. MartyrMartyr
    57. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    58. Wind
    59. Converter
    60. MartyrMartyr ×2
    61. Converter
    62. MartyrMartyr
    63. Con turret
    64. Wind
    65. MartyrMartyr
    66. Con turret
    67. Wind
    68. MartyrMartyr
    69. Converter
    70. Wind
    71. MartyrMartyr ×2
    72. Converter ×2
    73. MartyrMartyr
    74. Wind
    75. Converter
    76. MartyrMartyr ×2
    77. Wind
    78. Converter
    79. MartyrMartyr
    80. Wind
    81. MartyrMartyr
    82. Con turret ×2
    83. Wind
    84. MartyrMartyr ×2
    85. Con turret
    86. MartyrMartyr
    87. Wind
    88. MartyrMartyr ×2
    89. Con turret
    90. MartyrMartyr ×2
    91. Wind
    92. NoctuaNoctua
    93. Converter
    94. NoctuaNoctua
    95. Wind
    96. NoctuaNoctua
    97. Wind
    98. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    99. Wind
    100. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    101. Wind
    102. NoctuaNoctua
    103. Wind
    104. NoctuaNoctua
    105. Wind
    106. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    107. Wind
    108. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    109. Wind
    110. NoctuaNoctua
    111. Wind
    112. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    113. Wind
    114. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    115. Wind
    116. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    117. Wind
    118. NoctuaNoctua
    119. Wind
    120. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    121. Wind
    122. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    123. VisionVision ×3
    124. Wind
    125. VisionVision ×11
    126. NoctuaNoctua
    127. VisionVision ×3
    128. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    129. Wind
    130. NoctuaNoctua
    131. Wind
    132. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    133. Wind
    134. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    135. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 13:02
    136. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    137. Wind
    138. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    139. Wind
    140. NoctuaNoctua
    141. Wind
    142. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    143. Wind
    144. NoctuaNoctua ×14
    145. Wind
    146. NoctuaNoctua ×3

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Rysica's (38 OS, 13/09/2026); 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

Rysica

38.2 OS · 13/09/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
333 metal received · 31756 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

Played most by

NotReal3games of this buildRysica3games of this buildkrtf2games of this buildRosie2games of this buildSauceDispenser2games of this build