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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 · 53 distinct matches · 31 players · 78% of Legion Air games · team won 60% of 60 · 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 53 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 1:02 in all: 3 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Solar
    3. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:03 · 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
    • Noctua12 Noctua
    • Noctua2 Noctua for allies
    • Aeolus2 Aeolus for allies
    • Hippotes1 Hippotes for allies

    Some games also: converter (37%) · mex (33%) · con turret (30%)

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

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine18Wind
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    • Energy Converter8Converter
    Order
    1. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plant in 75% of games
    Builders
    • Construction Turret3 Con turret
    Army
    • Noctua22 Noctua

    Some games also: Legion Drone Plant (47%) · fusion (40%) · aeolus (37%) · Legion Construction Aircraft (35%) · mosquito (33%)

    By 10:00 in all: 3 mex · 1 mex · 24 wind · 20 wind · 9 converter · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 126 steps
    1. Converter
    2. Con turret
    3. Converter
    4. MartyrMartyr
    5. Converter
    6. MartyrMartyr
    7. Converter
    8. MartyrMartyr
    9. Converter
    10. MartyrMartyr
    11. PharosPharos
    12. Converter
    13. MartyrMartyr ×2
    14. PharosPharos
    15. Converter
    16. MartyrMartyr
    17. Converter
    18. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexnot finished by 15:00 · typical 7:04
    19. MartyrMartyr ×2
    20. PharosPharos
    21. MartyrMartyr ×2
    22. Wind
    23. MartyrMartyr ×3
    24. Converter
    25. MartyrMartyr
    26. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    27. VisionVision ×3
    28. MosquitoMosquito
    29. VisionVision
    30. Wind
    31. MosquitoMosquito
    32. VisionVision ×2
    33. PharosPharos
    34. MosquitoMosquito
    35. Mexfor Pond
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    37. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    38. Converter
    39. Wind
    40. Con turret
    41. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    42. Converter
    43. HippotesHippotes
    44. Mex ×2for Pond
    45. Wind ×2
    46. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    47. NoctuaNoctua
    48. Converter
    49. NoctuaNoctua
    50. Wind
    51. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    52. Wind
    53. Converter
    54. NoctuaNoctua
    55. PharosPharos
    56. NoctuaNoctua
    57. Wind
    58. Converter
    59. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 11:09 · typical 10:29
    60. NoctuaNoctua
    61. PharosPharos
    62. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    63. NoctuaNoctua
    64. BrambleBramble
    65. Wind
    66. Converter
    67. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    68. NoctuaNoctua
    69. Wind
    70. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    71. Wind
    72. Converter
    73. Fusion ReactorFusion
    74. Wind
    75. Converter
    76. Wind
    77. Converter
    78. Wind
    79. Converter ×3
    80. Wind
    81. Con turret
    82. Converter
    83. Con turret
    84. Wind
    85. Con turret
    86. Wind
    87. Con turret
    88. Fusion ReactorFusion
    89. Wind
    90. Con turret
    91. Wind
    92. Con turret ×2
    93. Wind
    94. Con turret
    95. Wind
    96. Converter
    97. Wind
    98. Converter
    99. Wind
    100. Converter
    101. Fusion ReactorFusion
    102. Wind
    103. Converter ×2
    104. Wind
    105. Converter ×2
    106. Wind
    107. Converter
    108. Wind
    109. Converter
    110. Wind
    111. Converter
    112. VeilVeil
    113. Wind
    114. Advanced Radar TowerAdvanced Radar Tower
    115. Converter
    116. Wind
    117. T2 converter
    118. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 14:39
    119. Converter
    120. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 14:58
    121. Converter
    122. Wind
    123. Converter
    124. Wind
    125. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantnot finished by 15:00
    126. Converter

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Hokusai's (32 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 Beach seafirst at 1:49 · in 92% of games
  • Aeolus3 Aeolus to Tech or Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 2:17 · in 100% of games
  • Hippotes1 Hippotes to Beach seafirst at 2:36 · in 62% of games

You get

  • Wind Turbine3 Wind from Beach sea or Geo seafirst at 1:28 · in 38% of games
  • Wind Turbine2 Wind from Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 1:30 · in 42% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot from Techfirst at 2:24 · in 77% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 6:05 · 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

01k2k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

60 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0039100
2:0091500
3:00145100
4:0020213640
5:0027086080
6:003512135120
7:004698207148
8:006273260200
9:008553360223
10:0011029425360
11:0013529572426
12:0016204702735
13:00189188851270
14:002228913371580
15:002551422141996
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

Hokusai

32.2 OS · 13/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
1024 metal received · 44667 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=60
Advanced Metal Extractor7:04Middle 50%: 6:26–7:37 · n=52
Fusion Reactor10:29Middle 50%: 9:47–11:41 · n=33

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