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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 · 4 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind ×5
    3. Energy storage
    4. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:41 · 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 · 17 steps
    1. BlindfoldBlindfold
    2. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    3. HippotesHippotesfor Beach sea
    4. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    5. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Geo sea
    6. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    7. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    8. NoctuaNoctua
    9. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    10. Mex
    11. Wind ×3
    12. Con turret
    13. Wind
    14. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    15. Con turret ×2
    16. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    17. Con turret ×2
  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 · 132 steps
    1. Converter
    2. AeolusAeolus
    3. Converter
    4. Con turret
    5. Converter
    6. NoctuaNoctua
    7. Converter ×2
    8. Wind ×3
    9. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 6:29 · typical 7:11
    10. Converter
    11. Wind ×2
    12. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    13. Wind
    14. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    15. Wind
    16. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    17. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 8:47
    18. Wind ×2
    19. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    20. Wind ×7
    21. Converter ×2
    22. Wind
    23. Converter ×2
    24. Wind
    25. Converter
    26. Wind
    27. Converter
    28. Wind ×2
    29. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 9:12
    30. Converter
    31. Wind
    32. NoctuaNoctua
    33. Converter
    34. NoctuaNoctua
    35. Converter
    36. NoctuaNoctua
    37. Converter
    38. NoctuaNoctua
    39. Converter
    40. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    41. Con turret
    42. Wind
    43. NoctuaNoctua
    44. Fusion ReactorFusion
    45. Converter
    46. NoctuaNoctua ×6
    47. Wind
    48. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    49. Wind ×2
    50. Converter ×2
    51. Wind
    52. Converter ×2
    53. Fusion ReactorFusion
    54. Converter
    55. Wind
    56. Converter ×2
    57. Con turret ×5
    58. Wind
    59. Converter ×4
    60. Wind
    61. Converter ×5
    62. Con turret
    63. Converter
    64. Con turret ×2
    65. Converter
    66. Con turret
    67. Legion Advanced Aircraft PlantLegion Advanced Aircraft Plantnot finished by 15:00
    68. Con turret
    69. Con turret
    70. Con turret ×7
    71. Legion Advanced Aircraft PlantLegion Advanced Aircraft Plantdone 13:06
    72. Converter ×3
    73. Wind
    74. Converter ×2
    75. AjaxAjax
    76. Wind
    77. Converter
    78. AjaxAjax
    79. Wind
    80. Converter
    81. AjaxAjax ×2
    82. Wind
    83. Converter
    84. AjaxAjax
    85. Converter
    86. Wind
    87. AjaxAjax
    88. Converter
    89. WhisperWhisper
    90. Wind
    91. Converter
    92. WhisperWhisper
    93. Converter
    94. Wind
    95. WhisperWhisper
    96. Converter ×2
    97. Wind
    98. AjaxAjax
    99. Wind
    100. Converter
    101. AjaxAjax
    102. Hardened Energy Storage
    103. AjaxAjax
    104. Wind
    105. Converter
    106. AjaxAjax
    107. Converter
    108. AjaxAjax
    109. Wind
    110. Converter
    111. AjaxAjax ×2
    112. Converter
    113. AjaxAjax
    114. Converter
    115. Wind
    116. AjaxAjax
    117. Wind
    118. AjaxAjax
    119. Con turret
    120. Wind
    121. AjaxAjax
    122. Con turret ×4
    123. AjaxAjax
    124. Con turret
    125. Wind
    126. Con turret
    127. PhoenixPhoenixdone 14:46
    128. Wind
    129. PhoenixPhoenix
    130. Wind ×2
    131. PhoenixPhoenix
    132. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is SauceDispenser's (35 OS, 23/09/2026); 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

SauceDispenser

35.2 OS · 23/09/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
808 metal received · 238633 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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