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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 ×7
    3. Energy storage
    4. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:49 · 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 · 14 steps
    1. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    2. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Geo sea
    3. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    4. Wind ×2
    5. NoctuaNoctua
    6. Wind
    7. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    8. Mex
    9. NoctuaNoctua ×9
    10. Con turret
    11. HippotesHippotesfor Geo
    12. AeolusAeolus ×2for Tech
    13. NoctuaNoctua ×6
    14. Wind
  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 · 98 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    2. Wind
    3. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    4. Wind
    5. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    6. Wind
    7. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    8. Wind
    9. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    10. Wind
    11. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    12. Wind
    13. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    14. Wind
    15. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    16. Wind
    17. NoctuaNoctua ×6
    18. Wind
    19. NoctuaNoctua
    20. AeolusAeolusfor Pond
    21. AeolusAeolus
    22. NoctuaNoctua
    23. Wind
    24. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    25. Wind
    26. NoctuaNoctua
    27. Wind
    28. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    29. Wind
    30. NoctuaNoctua
    31. Wind
    32. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    33. Wind
    34. NoctuaNoctua
    35. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    36. Wind
    37. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    38. NoctuaNoctua
    39. Wind
    40. Energy storage
    41. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    42. Wind
    43. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    44. Wind
    45. Converter
    46. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Geo
    47. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:28
    48. Converter
    49. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    50. Wind
    51. Converter
    52. NoctuaNoctua
    53. Converter
    54. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    55. Wind
    56. Converter ×2
    57. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    58. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    59. Wind
    60. Converter
    61. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    62. Converter
    63. Wind
    64. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    65. Converter
    66. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    67. NoctuaNoctua ×3for Geo
    68. Wind
    69. NoctuaNoctua ×8for Geo
    70. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    71. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Geo
    72. Con turret
    73. NoctuaNoctua ×13for Geo
    74. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 13:44
    75. Wind
    76. Con turret
    77. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    78. Wind ×2
    79. Con turret
    80. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    81. Wind
    82. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    83. Con turret
    84. Wind
    85. PrevailerPrevailerdone 14:27
    86. Wind
    87. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    88. Con turret
    89. Wind
    90. NoctuaNoctua
    91. Wind
    92. NoctuaNoctua
    93. Wind
    94. NoctuaNoctua
    95. Wind
    96. NoctuaNoctua ×16
    97. BirdshotBirdshot
    98. NoctuaNoctua ×12

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Hummell's (45 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

Hummell

44.6 OS · 23/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
2157 metal received · 154810 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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