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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 ×2
    3. Energy storage
    4. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:23 · 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 · 30 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctua
    2. Wind
    3. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    4. Wind
    5. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    6. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    7. MosquitoMosquito
    8. Mex
    9. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft ×2
    10. Con turret
    11. Wind ×4
    12. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    13. Wind ×4
    14. AeolusAeolus
    15. Converter
    16. Wind ×3
    17. Converter
    18. Wind
    19. Con turret
    20. Converter
    21. Overcharged Metal Extractor
    22. MosquitoMosquito
    23. NoctuaNoctua
    24. Converter
    25. Wind
    26. Overcharged Metal Extractor
    27. NoctuaNoctua
    28. Wind ×3
    29. Overcharged Metal Extractor
    30. BrambleBramble
  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 · 130 steps
    1. Overcharged Metal Extractor
    2. Wind ×2
    3. Converter
    4. Wind ×2
    5. Converter
    6. Wind
    7. Converter
    8. Wind ×2
    9. Converter ×3
    10. Con turret ×2
    11. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×4done 7:05 · typical 7:11
    12. RhapsisRhapsis
    13. BrambleBramble
    14. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    15. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 8:55
    16. Con turret
    17. Converter
    18. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 9:01
    19. Converter
    20. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    21. BlitzBlitz
    22. Converter
    23. Wind
    24. BlitzBlitz ×2
    25. Wind
    26. Converter
    27. BlitzBlitz
    28. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 9:28
    29. BlitzBlitz
    30. Wind
    31. Converter ×4
    32. SentrySentry
    33. Converter
    34. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    35. Converter
    36. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    37. Metal storage
    38. Mex
    39. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    40. Con turret
    41. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    42. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    43. Converter
    44. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    45. Mex
    46. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    47. Con turret ×2
    48. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    49. Con turret
    50. StorkLight transport
    51. Mex
    52. Converter
    53. Construction AircraftCon aircraft
    54. Con turret
    55. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    56. Mex
    57. Metal storage
    58. Con turret
    59. Converter
    60. Con turret ×2
    61. Mex
    62. Legion Advanced Aircraft PlantLegion Advanced Aircraft Plantdone 12:26
    63. Con turret
    64. Converter
    65. Con turret
    66. Converter
    67. Con turret
    68. Con turret
    69. Converter
    70. Wind
    71. Con turret
    72. Converter
    73. Con turret
    74. Converter
    75. Wind
    76. Converter ×2
    77. Wind
    78. Converter ×3
    79. Wind ×2
    80. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    81. Converter
    82. Wind ×2
    83. Converter
    84. AjaxAjax
    85. Converter
    86. Wind ×2
    87. Converter
    88. Advanced Construction AircraftT2 con aircraft
    89. Wind
    90. Converter
    91. Wind ×2
    92. Converter
    93. Wind
    94. Converter
    95. Wind ×2
    96. AjaxAjax
    97. Fusion ReactorFusionnot finished by 15:00
    98. Wind
    99. Converter
    100. Wind ×2
    101. Converter
    102. Wind
    103. Converter ×3
    104. Wind ×2
    105. AjaxAjax
    106. Wind
    107. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    108. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    109. Converter
    110. Con turret
    111. Wind
    112. Converter
    113. Wind ×2
    114. Converter
    115. Wind
    116. Converter
    117. Wind
    118. Converter
    119. Wind
    120. AjaxAjax
    121. Wind ×2
    122. Converter
    123. Wind
    124. Converter
    125. Wind ×3
    126. Converter
    127. Wind
    128. PharosPharos
    129. Converter
    130. Wind ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is krtf's (41 OS, 18/08/2026); 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

krtf

41.0 OS · 18/08/2026

Open source match ↗

30 received units · includes a constructor
1912 metal received · 67869 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

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