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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. Solar
    3. Mex
    4. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:33 · 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. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    2. Solar
    3. NoctuaNoctuafor Beach sea
    4. Wind ×2
    5. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    6. Wind ×2
    7. AeolusAeolus
    8. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    9. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    10. Wind ×2
    11. NoctuaNoctua
    12. Wind ×3
    13. NoctuaNoctua
    14. Wind
    15. Con turret
    16. NoctuaNoctua
    17. Con turret
    18. Energy storage
    19. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    20. Con turret
    21. NoctuaNoctua
    22. Con turret
    23. NoctuaNoctua
    24. AeolusAeolus
    25. Wind ×3
    26. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    27. Wind
    28. AeolusAeolus
    29. 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 · 362 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctua
    2. Wind
    3. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    4. Wind
    5. NoctuaNoctua
    6. Wind
    7. NoctuaNoctua
    8. Wind ×3
    9. NoctuaNoctua
    10. Wind ×2
    11. NoctuaNoctua
    12. Wind
    13. Converter
    14. NoctuaNoctua
    15. Wind
    16. NoctuaNoctua
    17. Wind
    18. Converter
    19. NoctuaNoctua
    20. Wind
    21. Converter
    22. NoctuaNoctua
    23. Wind ×3
    24. Converter
    25. NoctuaNoctua
    26. Wind ×2
    27. Converter
    28. Wind ×4
    29. Converter ×2
    30. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:12 · typical 7:11
    31. Converter
    32. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    33. Converter ×3
    34. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    35. Converter
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    37. Converter ×2
    38. Bot LabBot Labdone 8:08
    39. Converter ×2
    40. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    41. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    42. Converter
    43. Construction BotCon bot ×3
    44. Wind
    45. Construction BotCon bot
    46. Wind
    47. Construction BotCon bot
    48. Wind
    49. Construction BotCon bot
    50. Wind
    51. Construction BotCon bot
    52. Wind
    53. Construction BotCon bot
    54. Wind
    55. Construction BotCon bot
    56. Wind ×2
    57. Construction BotCon bot
    58. Wind
    59. Construction BotCon bot
    60. Wind ×2
    61. Construction BotCon bot
    62. Wind ×6
    63. Con turret
    64. Wind ×3
    65. Con turret
    66. Wind ×4
    67. Con turret
    68. Wind ×3
    69. Con turret
    70. Wind ×2
    71. Con turret
    72. Wind ×3
    73. Con turret
    74. Wind
    75. Energy storage ×2
    76. Wind ×5
    77. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 10:08
    78. Wind ×10
    79. NoctuaNoctua
    80. Wind ×3
    81. NoctuaNoctua
    82. Wind
    83. NoctuaNoctua
    84. Wind ×2
    85. NoctuaNoctua
    86. Wind ×2
    87. NoctuaNoctua
    88. Wind
    89. NoctuaNoctua
    90. Wind
    91. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    92. Wind ×2
    93. NoctuaNoctua
    94. Wind ×2
    95. NoctuaNoctua
    96. Wind ×3
    97. NoctuaNoctua
    98. Wind
    99. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    100. Wind
    101. NoctuaNoctua
    102. Wind ×2
    103. NoctuaNoctua
    104. Wind ×2
    105. NoctuaNoctua
    106. Wind ×3
    107. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    108. Wind ×2
    109. NoctuaNoctua
    110. Wind
    111. NoctuaNoctua
    112. Wind
    113. NoctuaNoctua
    114. Wind
    115. Converter
    116. NoctuaNoctua
    117. Wind ×2
    118. MartyrMartyr
    119. Wind ×2
    120. MartyrMartyr
    121. Wind
    122. MartyrMartyr
    123. Wind
    124. Converter
    125. MartyrMartyr
    126. Wind
    127. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    128. Wind ×5
    129. NoctuaNoctua
    130. Converter
    131. NoctuaNoctua
    132. Wind ×2
    133. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    134. Wind
    135. NoctuaNoctua
    136. Wind
    137. Converter
    138. NoctuaNoctua
    139. Wind
    140. NoctuaNoctua
    141. Wind
    142. NoctuaNoctua
    143. Wind
    144. NoctuaNoctua
    145. Wind ×2
    146. NoctuaNoctua
    147. Converter
    148. Wind ×3
    149. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    150. Wind
    151. VisionVision
    152. Wind
    153. NoctuaNoctua
    154. Wind
    155. NoctuaNoctua
    156. Converter
    157. Wind
    158. NoctuaNoctua
    159. Wind
    160. NoctuaNoctua
    161. Wind ×3
    162. NoctuaNoctua
    163. Wind
    164. NoctuaNoctua
    165. Wind
    166. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    167. Wind
    168. Converter
    169. Wind
    170. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    171. Wind
    172. NoctuaNoctua
    173. Wind ×2
    174. NoctuaNoctua
    175. Wind ×3
    176. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    177. Wind
    178. Converter
    179. NoctuaNoctua
    180. Wind
    181. NoctuaNoctua
    182. Wind ×2
    183. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    184. Wind
    185. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    186. Wind ×2
    187. NoctuaNoctua
    188. Converter
    189. Wind ×2
    190. NoctuaNoctua
    191. Wind
    192. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    193. Wind ×2
    194. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    195. Wind
    196. NoctuaNoctua
    197. Wind ×2
    198. Converter
    199. NoctuaNoctua
    200. Wind
    201. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    202. Wind
    203. NoctuaNoctua
    204. Wind
    205. NoctuaNoctua
    206. Wind ×2
    207. NoctuaNoctua
    208. Wind
    209. NoctuaNoctua
    210. Wind ×2
    211. NoctuaNoctua
    212. Converter
    213. Wind
    214. NoctuaNoctua
    215. Con turret
    216. Wind
    217. NoctuaNoctua
    218. Wind ×3
    219. NoctuaNoctua
    220. Con turret
    221. NoctuaNoctua
    222. Wind ×2
    223. Converter
    224. NoctuaNoctua
    225. Con turret
    226. NoctuaNoctua
    227. Wind ×2
    228. NoctuaNoctua
    229. Wind ×3
    230. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    231. Converter
    232. Wind ×2
    233. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    234. Wind ×2
    235. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    236. Wind ×2
    237. NoctuaNoctua
    238. Wind
    239. NoctuaNoctua
    240. Wind ×2
    241. NoctuaNoctua
    242. Con turret
    243. NoctuaNoctua
    244. Wind ×2
    245. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    246. Con turret
    247. Wind ×3
    248. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    249. Wind ×2
    250. NoctuaNoctua
    251. Wind
    252. NoctuaNoctua
    253. Converter
    254. Wind
    255. NoctuaNoctua
    256. Wind ×2
    257. NoctuaNoctua
    258. Wind ×2
    259. NoctuaNoctua
    260. Wind
    261. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    262. Wind ×3
    263. NoctuaNoctua
    264. Converter
    265. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    266. Wind
    267. NoctuaNoctua
    268. Wind
    269. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    270. Wind
    271. MartyrMartyr
    272. Wind
    273. MartyrMartyr
    274. Wind
    275. MartyrMartyr
    276. Wind
    277. Converter
    278. MartyrMartyr
    279. Wind
    280. MartyrMartyr
    281. Wind ×2
    282. MartyrMartyr ×3
    283. Wind ×2
    284. MartyrMartyr
    285. Converter
    286. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    287. Wind ×3
    288. NoctuaNoctua
    289. Wind
    290. NoctuaNoctua
    291. Wind
    292. NoctuaNoctua
    293. Wind
    294. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    295. Converter
    296. Wind
    297. NoctuaNoctua
    298. Wind
    299. NoctuaNoctua
    300. Wind ×3
    301. NoctuaNoctua
    302. Wind
    303. NoctuaNoctua
    304. Wind
    305. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    306. Converter
    307. NoctuaNoctua
    308. Wind
    309. NoctuaNoctua
    310. Wind
    311. NoctuaNoctua
    312. Wind ×3
    313. NoctuaNoctua
    314. Wind
    315. NoctuaNoctua
    316. Wind
    317. NoctuaNoctua
    318. Wind ×2
    319. NoctuaNoctua
    320. Wind
    321. NoctuaNoctua
    322. Wind
    323. Converter
    324. NoctuaNoctua
    325. Wind
    326. NoctuaNoctua
    327. Wind ×2
    328. NoctuaNoctua
    329. Wind
    330. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    331. Wind
    332. NoctuaNoctua
    333. Wind
    334. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    335. Converter
    336. Wind
    337. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    338. Wind
    339. NoctuaNoctua
    340. Wind ×2
    341. NoctuaNoctua
    342. Con turret
    343. Wind
    344. Con turret
    345. NoctuaNoctua
    346. Wind ×2
    347. NoctuaNoctua
    348. Converter
    349. Con turret
    350. Wind
    351. Con turret
    352. NoctuaNoctua
    353. Wind ×2
    354. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    355. Converter
    356. NoctuaNoctua
    357. Wind ×2
    358. NoctuaNoctua
    359. Wind
    360. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    361. Wind
    362. NoctuaNoctua

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is NotReal's (39 OS, 30/08/2026); 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

NotReal

39.1 OS · 30/08/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
193 metal received · 60245 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

Played most by

NotReal3games of this buildRysica3games of this buildkrtf2games of this buildRosie2games of this buildSauceDispenser2games of this build
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