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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 1:03 · 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 · 35 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    2. Wind ×5
    3. NoctuaNoctuafor Beach sea
    4. Wind ×2
    5. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    6. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    7. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    8. Energy storage
    9. Mex
    10. Con turret
    11. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft ×2
    12. Wind
    13. MartyrMartyr ×2
    14. Wind ×2
    15. Converter
    16. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    17. Wind
    18. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    19. Wind
    20. NoctuaNoctua
    21. Con turret
    22. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    23. Wind
    24. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    25. Wind
    26. VisionVision
    27. NoctuaNoctua
    28. Converter
    29. Wind
    30. NoctuaNoctua
    31. Con turret
    32. MartyrMartyr ×2
    33. Con turret
    34. MartyrMartyr
    35. 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 · 96 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    2. Converter
    3. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    4. Converter
    5. VisionVision
    6. Converter
    7. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 6:08
    8. Converter
    9. MosquitoMosquito
    10. Wind
    11. MosquitoMosquito
    12. Wind
    13. MosquitoMosquito
    14. Wind
    15. MosquitoMosquito
    16. Wind
    17. MosquitoMosquito
    18. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×2done 7:27 · typical 7:11
    19. Wind ×2
    20. Converter
    21. Wind
    22. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    23. Wind
    24. Converter
    25. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    26. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantnot finished by 15:00
    27. Converter
    28. Bot LabBot Labdone 8:35
    29. Construction BotCon bot ×4
    30. Wind
    31. Construction BotCon bot
    32. Wind
    33. Construction BotCon bot
    34. Wind ×6
    35. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 9:14
    36. Wind
    37. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    38. Wind
    39. Converter
    40. MosquitoMosquito
    41. Wind ×2
    42. MosquitoMosquito
    43. Wind ×2
    44. MosquitoMosquito ×3
    45. Converter
    46. Wind
    47. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    48. Wind
    49. Converter
    50. MosquitoMosquito
    51. NoctuaNoctua
    52. Wind
    53. NoctuaNoctua
    54. Wind
    55. NoctuaNoctua
    56. Wind
    57. NoctuaNoctua
    58. Wind
    59. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    60. Wind ×2
    61. NoctuaNoctua
    62. Wind
    63. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    64. Converter
    65. Wind
    66. NoctuaNoctua
    67. Wind ×2
    68. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    69. Converter
    70. Wind
    71. NoctuaNoctua
    72. Wind
    73. NoctuaNoctua
    74. Wind
    75. NoctuaNoctua
    76. Wind
    77. Converter
    78. Wind
    79. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    80. Converter ×2
    81. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    82. Wind
    83. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    84. MosquitoMosquito
    85. Wind
    86. NoctuaNoctua
    87. Wind
    88. NoctuaNoctua
    89. Wind
    90. ChainsawChainsaw
    91. Wind ×2
    92. NoctuaNoctua
    93. Wind ×2
    94. Converter
    95. NoctuaNoctua
    96. MosquitoMosquito

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Pitacupateu's (38 OS, 25/08/2026); 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

Pitacupateu

37.6 OS · 25/08/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
37 metal received · 71945 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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