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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 (83%)

#eco #air #team support · 53 distinct matches · 31 players · 78% of Legion Air games · team won 60% of 60 · 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 53 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 (32%)

    By 1:02 in all: 3 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind ×2
    3. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:07 · 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 (37%) · mex (33%) · con turret (30%)

    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 · 46 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctuafor Beach sea
    2. Wind
    3. HippotesHippotesfor Beach sea
    4. Wind ×3
    5. NoctuaNoctuafor unknown
    6. Wind ×2
    7. NoctuaNoctua
    8. Wind
    9. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    10. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    11. Wind ×2
    12. Con turret
    13. Wind
    14. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    15. Energy storage
    16. Mex
    17. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    18. Wind
    19. NoctuaNoctua
    20. Wind
    21. NoctuaNoctua
    22. Wind
    23. NoctuaNoctua
    24. Wind
    25. Wind
    26. NoctuaNoctua
    27. Wind
    28. NoctuaNoctua
    29. Wind
    30. Wind
    31. NoctuaNoctua
    32. Wind
    33. NoctuaNoctua
    34. Wind
    35. Wind
    36. NoctuaNoctua
    37. Wind
    38. NoctuaNoctua
    39. Wind
    40. NoctuaNoctua
    41. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    42. Wind
    43. NoctuaNoctua
    44. Converter
    45. Con turret
    46. NoctuaNoctua
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine18Wind
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    • Energy Converter8Converter
    Order
    1. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plant in 75% of games
    Builders
    • Construction Turret3 Con turret
    Army
    • Noctua22 Noctua

    Some games also: Legion Drone Plant (47%) · fusion (40%) · aeolus (37%) · Legion Construction Aircraft (35%) · mosquito (33%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 173 steps
    1. Converter
    2. Wind
    3. Converter
    4. NoctuaNoctua
    5. Converter
    6. Con turret
    7. NoctuaNoctua
    8. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 6:33 · typical 7:04
    9. Converter ×3
    10. NoctuaNoctua
    11. Wind
    12. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    13. Wind
    14. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    15. Wind ×2
    16. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    17. Wind
    18. Con turret
    19. Wind ×4
    20. Energy storage
    21. Con turret
    22. Wind
    23. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 7:50
    24. Wind
    25. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    26. Wind
    27. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    28. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    29. Wind
    30. NoctuaNoctua
    31. MosquitoMosquito
    32. Wind
    33. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    34. Wind
    35. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    36. Wind
    37. Con turret
    38. MosquitoMosquito
    39. Wind
    40. NoctuaNoctua
    41. Con turret
    42. NoctuaNoctua
    43. Wind
    44. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    45. Wind
    46. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    47. Wind
    48. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    49. Wind
    50. MosquitoMosquito
    51. Wind
    52. MosquitoMosquito
    53. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    54. Wind
    55. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    56. Wind
    57. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    58. Wind
    59. NoctuaNoctua
    60. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 11:00 · typical 10:29
    61. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    62. Wind
    63. NoctuaNoctua
    64. Wind
    65. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    66. Wind
    67. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    68. Wind
    69. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    70. Wind
    71. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    72. Wind
    73. NoctuaNoctua
    74. Converter
    75. NoctuaNoctua
    76. Wind
    77. Converter
    78. NoctuaNoctua
    79. Converter
    80. NoctuaNoctua
    81. Wind
    82. NoctuaNoctua
    83. Converter
    84. NoctuaNoctua
    85. Converter
    86. AeolusAeolusfor Beach sea
    87. Wind
    88. Converter
    89. NoctuaNoctua
    90. Wind
    91. Converter
    92. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    93. Converter
    94. Wind
    95. MosquitoMosquito
    96. NoctuaNoctua
    97. Converter
    98. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    99. Wind
    100. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    101. Con turret
    102. Wind
    103. Con turret
    104. NoctuaNoctua
    105. Wind
    106. Con turret
    107. NoctuaNoctua
    108. Wind
    109. Con turret
    110. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    111. Fusion ReactorFusion
    112. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    113. Wind
    114. NoctuaNoctua ×7
    115. Wind
    116. NoctuaNoctua ×7
    117. Wind
    118. NoctuaNoctua
    119. MosquitoMosquito ×3
    120. Wind
    121. NoctuaNoctua
    122. Converter
    123. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    124. Wind
    125. Converter
    126. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    127. Wind
    128. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    129. Wind
    130. Converter
    131. NoctuaNoctua ×7
    132. Wind
    133. NoctuaNoctua
    134. Converter
    135. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    136. Converter
    137. NoctuaNoctua
    138. Wind
    139. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    140. Converter
    141. NoctuaNoctua
    142. Wind
    143. NoctuaNoctua
    144. Converter
    145. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    146. Wind
    147. NoctuaNoctua
    148. Converter
    149. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    150. Converter
    151. NoctuaNoctua
    152. Wind
    153. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    154. Converter
    155. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    156. Wind
    157. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    158. Converter
    159. NoctuaNoctua
    160. Wind
    161. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    162. Converter
    163. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    164. Wind
    165. NoctuaNoctua
    166. Converter
    167. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    168. Wind
    169. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    170. MosquitoMosquito
    171. Converter
    172. Wind
    173. MosquitoMosquito ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [Grump]Matsuri's (37 OS, 04/10/2026); 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 62% 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 1:30 · in 42% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot from Techfirst at 2:24 · in 77% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 6:05 · in 85% 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

60 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0039100
2:0091500
3:00145100
4:0020213640
5:0027086080
6:003512135120
7:004698207148
8:006273260200
9:008553360223
10:0011029425360
11:0013529572426
12:0016204702735
13:00189188851270
14:002228913371580
15:002551422141996
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

[Grump]Matsuri

37.4 OS · 04/10/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
208 metal received · 40611 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=60
Advanced Metal Extractor7:04Middle 50%: 6:26–7:37 · n=52
Fusion Reactor10:29Middle 50%: 9:47–11:41 · n=33

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