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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 · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind
    3. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:00 · 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 · 29 steps
    1. HippotesHippotesfor Beach sea
    2. Wind ×3
    3. NoctuaNoctuafor Beach sea
    4. Wind ×2
    5. NoctuaNoctua
    6. Wind
    7. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    8. Wind
    9. Energy storage
    10. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    11. Wind ×3
    12. Mex
    13. Wind ×2
    14. NoctuaNoctua
    15. Advanced solar
    16. Wind ×2
    17. NoctuaNoctua
    18. Wind
    19. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    20. Wind
    21. Overcharged Metal Extractor
    22. Wind
    23. AeolusAeolusfor Geo
    24. Wind
    25. Overcharged Metal Extractor
    26. NoctuaNoctua
    27. Overcharged Metal Extractor
    28. Wind
    29. NoctuaNoctua
  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 · 187 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctua
    2. Wind
    3. Con turret
    4. NoctuaNoctua
    5. Wind
    6. Con turret
    7. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    8. Wind
    9. Overcharged Metal Extractor
    10. NoctuaNoctua
    11. Wind
    12. NoctuaNoctua
    13. Wind
    14. NoctuaNoctua
    15. Wind ×2
    16. NoctuaNoctua
    17. Wind
    18. NoctuaNoctua
    19. Wind
    20. NoctuaNoctua
    21. Wind
    22. NoctuaNoctua
    23. AeolusAeolus
    24. Wind
    25. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:40 · typical 7:11
    26. Wind
    27. NoctuaNoctua
    28. Con turret
    29. Wind ×2
    30. NoctuaNoctua
    31. Wind
    32. Con turret
    33. Wind
    34. NoctuaNoctua
    35. Wind
    36. NoctuaNoctua
    37. Wind
    38. NoctuaNoctua
    39. Converter
    40. NoctuaNoctua
    41. Wind
    42. Converter
    43. NoctuaNoctua
    44. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    45. Wind
    46. Converter
    47. NoctuaNoctua
    48. Wind ×2
    49. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    50. Wind
    51. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    52. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    53. Wind
    54. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    55. Wind
    56. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    57. Wind
    58. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    59. Wind
    60. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    61. Converter
    62. Wind
    63. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    64. Wind
    65. Con turret
    66. Wind
    67. Con turret
    68. NoctuaNoctua
    69. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    70. Wind
    71. NoctuaNoctua
    72. Converter
    73. Wind
    74. NoctuaNoctua
    75. Converter
    76. NoctuaNoctua
    77. Wind
    78. Converter ×2
    79. NoctuaNoctua
    80. Wind
    81. Converter
    82. NoctuaNoctua
    83. Wind
    84. NoctuaNoctua
    85. Converter
    86. NoctuaNoctua
    87. Converter
    88. Wind
    89. NoctuaNoctua
    90. Converter
    91. NoctuaNoctua
    92. Wind
    93. NoctuaNoctua
    94. Converter
    95. NoctuaNoctua
    96. Wind
    97. NoctuaNoctua
    98. MartyrMartyr
    99. Converter
    100. MartyrMartyr
    101. Wind
    102. MartyrMartyr
    103. Converter
    104. MartyrMartyr
    105. Wind
    106. Converter
    107. MartyrMartyr
    108. Wind
    109. Converter
    110. MartyrMartyr
    111. Converter
    112. Wind
    113. MartyrMartyr
    114. Wind
    115. MartyrMartyr
    116. Wind
    117. MartyrMartyr
    118. Converter
    119. MartyrMartyr
    120. Wind
    121. MartyrMartyr
    122. Converter
    123. MartyrMartyr
    124. Wind
    125. Converter
    126. MartyrMartyr
    127. Advanced Fusion ReactorAdvanced Fusion Reactordone 14:43
    128. Wind
    129. Converter
    130. MartyrMartyr
    131. Converter
    132. MartyrMartyr
    133. Wind
    134. NoctuaNoctua
    135. Wind
    136. NoctuaNoctua
    137. Con turret
    138. NoctuaNoctua
    139. Wind
    140. NoctuaNoctua
    141. Con turret
    142. Wind
    143. Con turret
    144. NoctuaNoctua
    145. Con turret
    146. NoctuaNoctua
    147. Wind
    148. Con turret
    149. Wind
    150. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    151. Wind
    152. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    153. Wind
    154. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    155. Wind
    156. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    157. Wind
    158. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    159. Wind
    160. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    161. Wind
    162. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    163. Wind
    164. NoctuaNoctua
    165. Wind
    166. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    167. Wind
    168. NoctuaNoctua
    169. Wind
    170. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    171. Wind
    172. NoctuaNoctua
    173. Wind
    174. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    175. Wind
    176. NoctuaNoctua
    177. Wind
    178. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    179. Wind
    180. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    181. Wind
    182. Converter
    183. NoctuaNoctua
    184. T2 converter
    185. NoctuaNoctua ×7
    186. Wind
    187. NoctuaNoctua

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is RollingDad's (36 OS, 15/08/2026); 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

RollingDad

35.7 OS · 15/08/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
320 metal received · 90630 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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