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Legion Air build order · Supreme Isthmus

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 (84%)

#eco #air #team support · 54 distinct matches · 32 players · 78% of Legion Air games · team won 59% of 61 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Legion Drone Plant by 1:21

  1. Take mex and wind while queuing the drone plant early.
  2. Get the drone plant up before 1:33 to start the economy base.
  3. Add an advanced mex to keep scaling economy for the team.
  4. Bring a fusion reactor online to support later tech.
  5. Supply allies with Noctua, Aeolus and Hippotes while building Noctua bombers.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 54 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 ~1:24, middle half 1:16–1:35

    Some games also: energy storage (31%)

    By 1:02 in all: 3 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind ×5
    3. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:28 · typical 1:24
  2. 2

    Legion Drone Plant to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine11Wind
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Legion Construction Aircraft1 Legion Construction Aircraft
    Army
    • Noctua12 Noctua
    • Noctua2 Noctua for allies
    • Aeolus2 Aeolus for allies
    • Hippotes1 Hippotes for allies

    Some games also: converter (36%) · mex (34%)

    By 5:00 in all: 3 mex · 1 mex · 15 wind · 3 wind · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 36 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctua
    2. Wind
    3. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Geo sea
    4. Wind ×2
    5. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    6. Wind
    7. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    8. HippotesHippotesfor Geo sea
    9. Mex
    10. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    11. NoctuaNoctua
    12. Con turret
    13. NoctuaNoctua
    14. Wind
    15. Wind
    16. Wind
    17. AeolusAeolus ×2for Beach sea
    18. Converter
    19. Energy storage
    20. Wind
    21. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    22. Wind
    23. NoctuaNoctua
    24. Wind ×2
    25. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    26. Con turret
    27. NoctuaNoctua
    28. Wind
    29. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    30. Wind
    31. Wind
    32. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    33. Wind
    34. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    35. Wind
    36. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine18Wind
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    • Energy Converter8Converter
    Order
    1. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plant in 75% of games
    Builders
    • Construction Turret3 Con turret
    Army
    • Noctua21 Noctua

    Some games also: Legion Drone Plant (48%) · fusion (39%) · aeolus (36%) · mosquito (34%) · Legion Construction Aircraft (34%)

    By 10:00 in all: 3 mex · 1 mex · 24 wind · 20 wind · 9 converter · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 107 steps
    1. Wind ×2
    2. Wind
    3. NoctuaNoctua
    4. Wind
    5. NoctuaNoctua
    6. Wind
    7. Wind
    8. Con turret
    9. Wind
    10. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    11. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 6:00 · typical 7:04
    12. Wind
    13. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    14. Wind
    15. Converter
    16. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    17. Converter ×2
    18. BrambleBramble
    19. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    20. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    21. Con turret
    22. Wind ×4
    23. Con turret ×2
    24. Wind ×2
    25. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 8:50 · typical 10:29
    26. Con turret
    27. Wind
    28. T2 converter
    29. Wind ×2
    30. Con turret
    31. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 9:03
    32. Wind
    33. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    34. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 9:19
    35. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    36. Wind
    37. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    38. Con turret
    39. NoctuaNoctua
    40. Wind
    41. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    42. Wind
    43. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    44. Wind
    45. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    46. Energy storage
    47. NoctuaNoctua
    48. Wind
    49. NoctuaNoctua
    50. BlindfoldBlindfold
    51. Wind
    52. NoctuaNoctua
    53. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    54. NoctuaNoctua
    55. Wind
    56. NoctuaNoctua
    57. AeolusAeolus
    58. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    59. AeolusAeolus
    60. Con turret
    61. NoctuaNoctua
    62. Wind
    63. AeolusAeolus
    64. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    65. Wind
    66. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    67. Con turret
    68. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    69. Wind
    70. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    71. Metal storage
    72. NoctuaNoctua
    73. Wind
    74. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    75. Wind
    76. NoctuaNoctua ×8
    77. Wind
    78. NoctuaNoctua ×6
    79. Wind
    80. NoctuaNoctua ×22
    81. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    82. BlindfoldBlindfold ×2
    83. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    84. NoctuaNoctua ×24
    85. Con turret
    86. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    87. Metal storage
    88. NoctuaNoctua ×30
    89. MartyrMartyr ×21
    90. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    91. MartyrMartyr
    92. NoctuaNoctua
    93. MartyrMartyr
    94. Fusion ReactorFusion
    95. NoctuaNoctua
    96. Energy storage
    97. T2 converter
    98. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    99. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    100. ChainsawChainsaw
    101. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    102. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    103. T2 converter
    104. VisionVision ×4
    105. T2 converter
    106. Fusion ReactorFusion
    107. Con turret ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is TheGeneraI's (31 OS, 24/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Noctua2 Noctua to Geo or Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 1:49 · in 92% of games
  • Aeolus3 Aeolus to Tech or Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 2:17 · in 100% of games
  • Hippotes1 Hippotes to Beach seafirst at 2:36 · in 61% of games

You get

  • Wind Turbine3 Wind from Beach sea or Geo seafirst at 1:28 · in 38% of games
  • Wind Turbine2 Wind from Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 1:31 · in 43% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot from Techfirst at 2:24 · in 75% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 6:05 · in 84% 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

01k2k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

61 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0039000
2:0091500
3:00145000
4:0020234040
5:0027096080
6:003519125120
7:004740201145
8:006308255200
9:008531360206
10:0010985416360
11:0013512534411
12:0016119683720
13:00189828681240
14:002236313291575
15:002559822581968
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

This Legion air baseline wins half its games, with far lower losses and kills than the front-facing roles by 15:00.

  • + Lowest own metal lost among air builds shown, 1850 by 15:00.
  • − Enemy metal destroyed stays low at 2055 by 15:00, little offensive impact.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

TheGeneraI

30.7 OS · 24/09/2026

Open source match ↗

2 received units · includes a constructor
287 metal received · 98157 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Legion Drone Plant1:24Middle 50%: 1:16–1:35 · n=61
Advanced Metal Extractor7:04Middle 50%: 6:26–7:37 · n=52
Fusion Reactor10:29Middle 50%: 9:47–11:41 · n=33

Played most by

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