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Legion Air build order · Supreme Isthmus

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 (83%)

#eco #air #team support · 52 distinct matches · 31 players · 78% of Legion Air games · team won 61% of 59 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Legion Drone Plant by 1:21

  1. Take mex and wind while queuing the drone plant early.
  2. Get the drone plant up before 1:33 to start the economy base.
  3. Add an advanced mex to keep scaling economy for the team.
  4. Bring a fusion reactor online to support later tech.
  5. Supply allies with Noctua, Aeolus and Hippotes while building Noctua bombers.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 52 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 ~1:24, middle half 1:16–1:35

    Some games also: energy storage (32%)

    By 1:03 in all: 3 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind ×5
    3. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:26 · typical 1:24
  2. 2

    Legion Drone Plant to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine11Wind
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Legion Construction Aircraft1 Legion Construction Aircraft
    Army
    • Noctua11 Noctua
    • Noctua2 Noctua for allies
    • Aeolus2 Aeolus for allies
    • Hippotes1 Hippotes for allies

    Some games also: converter (36%) · mex (32%) · con turret (31%)

    By 5:00 in all: 3 mex · 1 mex · 15 wind · 3 wind · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 33 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctua
    2. Wind
    3. NoctuaNoctuafor Beach sea
    4. Wind
    5. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    6. Wind
    7. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    8. Wind
    9. HippotesHippotesfor Beach sea
    10. Wind
    11. Solar
    12. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    13. Wind ×3
    14. NoctuaNoctua
    15. Mex
    16. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    17. NoctuaNoctua
    18. Wind
    19. NoctuaNoctua
    20. AeolusAeolusfor Geo
    21. Wind ×2
    22. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    23. Wind
    24. NoctuaNoctua
    25. Con turret
    26. AeolusAeolusfor Beach sea
    27. Wind
    28. NoctuaNoctua
    29. Converter
    30. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    31. Wind
    32. MosquitoMosquito
    33. NoctuaNoctua ×2
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine18Wind
    • Wind Turbine2Wind
    • Energy Converter7Converter
    Order
    1. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plant in 75% of games
    Builders
    • Construction Turret3 Con turret
    Army
    • Noctua21 Noctua

    Some games also: Legion Drone Plant (47%) · fusion (41%) · aeolus (36%) · mosquito (34%) · Legion Construction Aircraft (34%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 121 steps
    1. Solar
    2. NoctuaNoctua
    3. Wind
    4. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    5. Wind
    6. Wind
    7. NoctuaNoctua
    8. Wind
    9. NoctuaNoctua
    10. Wind
    11. NoctuaNoctua
    12. Wind
    13. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    14. AeolusAeolus
    15. Wind
    16. Wind
    17. Converter
    18. Wind
    19. NoctuaNoctua
    20. Wind
    21. Wind ×2
    22. NoctuaNoctua
    23. Converter
    24. Wind
    25. NoctuaNoctua
    26. Energy storage
    27. NoctuaNoctua
    28. Converter
    29. NoctuaNoctua ×6
    30. Wind
    31. NoctuaNoctua
    32. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:57 · typical 7:03
    33. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    34. Wind
    35. Converter
    36. Con turret
    37. Wind ×3
    38. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    39. Wind ×2
    40. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    41. Wind ×6
    42. Con turret
    43. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    44. Con turret
    45. Wind
    46. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 9:29
    47. Wind
    48. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    49. Wind
    50. NoctuaNoctua
    51. Con turret
    52. NoctuaNoctua
    53. Wind
    54. Wind
    55. NoctuaNoctua
    56. Converter
    57. Solar
    58. Wind
    59. NoctuaNoctua
    60. Wind ×2
    61. NoctuaNoctua
    62. Wind ×2
    63. Wind
    64. NoctuaNoctua
    65. Wind
    66. NoctuaNoctua
    67. Wind
    68. Wind
    69. Wind
    70. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    71. Wind ×2
    72. BlindfoldBlindfold
    73. Wind ×3
    74. BlindfoldBlindfold
    75. Wind ×2
    76. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    77. Wind
    78. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    79. Wind ×2
    80. NoctuaNoctua
    81. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    82. NoctuaNoctua
    83. Wind
    84. NoctuaNoctua
    85. Con turret ×2
    86. Wind
    87. Con turret
    88. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    89. Wind
    90. NoctuaNoctua
    91. Con turret
    92. Wind
    93. Con turret
    94. Wind
    95. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    96. Wind
    97. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    98. Wind
    99. NoctuaNoctua
    100. Wind
    101. BrambleBramble
    102. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    103. Wind
    104. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    105. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 12:31 · typical 10:29
    106. NoctuaNoctua ×7
    107. Wind
    108. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    109. Wind ×2
    110. T2 converter ×2
    111. Wind ×5
    112. Fusion ReactorFusion
    113. Wind ×2
    114. T2 converter
    115. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plant ×2done 14:01
    116. T2 converter
    117. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    118. MosquitoMosquito ×20
    119. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    120. MosquitoMosquito
    121. NoctuaNoctua

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is TheGeneraI's (35 OS, 06/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Noctua2 Noctua to Geo or Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 1:50 · in 92% of games
  • Aeolus3 Aeolus to Tech or Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 2:18 · in 100% of games
  • Hippotes1 Hippotes to Beach seafirst at 2:33 · in 61% of games

You get

  • Wind Turbine3 Wind from Beach sea or Geo seafirst at 1:28 · in 39% of games
  • Wind Turbine2 Wind from Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 1:31 · in 41% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot from Techfirst at 2:24 · in 76% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 6:03 · in 85% 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

59 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0039100
2:0091500
3:00145000
4:0020234040
5:0027096080
6:003519145120
7:004740212150
8:006308255200
9:008574360206
10:0011072433360
11:0013546609411
12:0016288721720
13:00189829011300
14:002236313291575
15:002559821702023
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

This Legion air baseline wins half its games, with far lower losses and kills than the front-facing roles by 15:00.

  • + Lowest own metal lost among air builds shown, 1850 by 15:00.
  • − Enemy metal destroyed stays low at 2055 by 15:00, little offensive impact.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

TheGeneraI

34.8 OS · 06/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
190 metal received · 10104 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Legion Drone Plant1:24Middle 50%: 1:16–1:35 · n=59
Advanced Metal Extractor7:03Middle 50%: 6:25–7:36 · n=51
Fusion Reactor10:29Middle 50%: 9:47–11:41 · n=33

Played most by

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