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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 (79%)

#eco #air #team support · 22 distinct matches · 15 players · 86% of Legion Air games · team won 50% of 24 · 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 22 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 ~1:21, middle half 1:13–1:34

    Some games also: energy storage (33%)

    By 1:00 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 1:20 · typical 1:21
  2. 2

    Legion Drone Plant to 5:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine9Wind
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Legion Construction Aircraft1 Legion Construction Aircraft
    Army
    • Noctua9 Noctua
    • Noctua2 Noctua for allies
    • Aeolus2 Aeolus for allies
    • Aeolus1 Aeolus
    • Hippotes1 Hippotes for allies

    Some games also: energy storage (50%) · mex (50%) · martyr (33%) · Vision (33%) · mex (33%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 29 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctua
    2. Wind ×2
    3. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    4. Wind ×4
    5. NoctuaNoctua
    6. Wind
    7. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    8. AeolusAeolus
    9. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    10. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    11. NoctuaNoctua
    12. Mex
    13. Con turret
    14. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    15. Con turret
    16. Wind ×2
    17. Con turret
    18. Wind
    19. Con turret
    20. Energy storage
    21. Wind
    22. NoctuaNoctua
    23. Con turret
    24. NoctuaNoctua
    25. Wind ×5
    26. Converter
    27. Wind ×5
    28. Converter
    29. Con turret
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine23Wind
    • Energy Converter10Converter
    Builders
    • Construction Turret3 Con turret
    Army
    • Noctua14 Noctua

    Some games also: Legion Drone Plant (42%) · wind (42%) · fusion (33%) · aeolus (33%)

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 27 wind · 16 wind · 10 converter · 1 energy storage · 5 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 104 steps
    1. Wind
    2. Converter
    3. Wind ×2
    4. Converter
    5. Wind ×2
    6. Converter
    7. Wind ×2
    8. Converter
    9. Wind ×2
    10. Converter
    11. Wind
    12. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 5:54
    13. Wind
    14. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    15. NoctuaNoctua
    16. Wind
    17. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    18. Wind
    19. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    20. Wind
    21. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    22. Wind
    23. NoctuaNoctua ×8
    24. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 6:55 · typical 7:08
    25. NoctuaNoctua
    26. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    27. NoctuaNoctua
    28. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    29. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 9:08
    30. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    31. Wind
    32. Converter ×6
    33. Con turret
    34. Converter
    35. Con turret
    36. Converter ×2
    37. Con turret
    38. Converter ×2
    39. Con turret
    40. Converter
    41. Con turret
    42. Converter
    43. Con turret ×2
    44. Converter
    45. Con turret
    46. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 9:56
    47. NoctuaNoctua ×20
    48. Wind
    49. NoctuaNoctua
    50. Wind
    51. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    52. Wind
    53. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    54. Wind
    55. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    56. Wind
    57. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    58. Wind
    59. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    60. Wind
    61. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    62. Wind
    63. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    64. Wind
    65. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    66. Wind
    67. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    68. Wind
    69. NoctuaNoctua
    70. Fusion ReactorFusion
    71. NoctuaNoctua
    72. Wind
    73. NoctuaNoctua
    74. Wind
    75. NoctuaNoctua
    76. Converter
    77. Wind ×2
    78. Converter
    79. Wind ×4
    80. Converter
    81. Wind
    82. Converter ×2
    83. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 12:33
    84. Converter
    85. Con turret ×2
    86. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    87. Con turret ×2
    88. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    89. Con turret ×3
    90. NoctuaNoctua
    91. Con turret
    92. NoctuaNoctua ×9
    93. Con turret
    94. NoctuaNoctua
    95. Con turret
    96. NoctuaNoctua
    97. Con turret ×4
    98. NoctuaNoctua
    99. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 13:35
    100. NoctuaNoctua ×23
    101. MosquitoMosquito ×12
    102. NoctuaNoctua ×49
    103. Fusion ReactorFusion
    104. NoctuaNoctua ×6

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is SauceDispenser's (35 OS, 29/09/2026); 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 Pond or Geo seafirst at 2:08 · in 63% of games

You get

  • Wind Turbine2 Wind from Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 1:34 · in 46% of games
  • Wind Turbine3 Wind from Beach sea or Geo seafirst at 1:46 · in 42% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot from Tech or Geo seafirst at 2:27 · in 83% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 6:05 · in 79% 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

01k2k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

24 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0038900
2:0091800
3:00145300
4:0020133640
5:00270347113
6:003646117181
7:004989161232
8:006759250290
9:009034350380
10:0011410400405
11:0013952444545
12:0016448489785
13:00191378391595
14:002228915471850
15:002562420551895
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

SauceDispenser

35.3 OS · 29/09/2026

Open source match ↗

2 received units · includes a constructor
1473 metal received · 82632 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Legion Drone Plant1:21Middle 50%: 1:13–1:34 · n=24
Advanced Metal Extractor7:08Middle 50%: 6:41–7:28 · n=20

Played most by

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