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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 · 4 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind ×4
    3. Energy storage
    4. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:37 · 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 · 33 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Beach sea
    2. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    3. HippotesHippotesfor Beach sea
    4. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    5. NoctuaNoctua
    6. Mex
    7. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    8. Con turret
    9. Wind ×3
    10. Con turret
    11. Wind
    12. NoctuaNoctua
    13. Wind ×2
    14. NoctuaNoctua
    15. Wind
    16. Wind
    17. Wind
    18. NoctuaNoctua
    19. Wind
    20. NoctuaNoctua
    21. Wind
    22. NoctuaNoctua
    23. Con turret
    24. NoctuaNoctua
    25. Wind
    26. Converter
    27. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    28. NoctuaNoctua
    29. Wind
    30. NoctuaNoctua
    31. Wind
    32. NoctuaNoctua
    33. Wind
  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 · 169 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctua
    2. Wind
    3. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 6:34 · typical 7:04
    4. Converter
    5. Wind ×2
    6. NoctuaNoctua
    7. Wind ×8
    8. Converter
    9. Wind ×3
    10. Converter
    11. Wind
    12. Converter
    13. Wind
    14. Converter ×2
    15. Wind
    16. Converter
    17. Wind
    18. Converter
    19. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    20. Wind
    21. Converter ×2
    22. Wind ×6
    23. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    24. Wind ×8
    25. AeolusAeolus
    26. NoctuaNoctua
    27. Wind
    28. NoctuaNoctua
    29. MartyrMartyr
    30. Wind
    31. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    32. Wind
    33. MartyrMartyr ×2
    34. Wind
    35. MartyrMartyr ×3
    36. Wind
    37. MartyrMartyr ×2
    38. Wind
    39. MartyrMartyr
    40. Wind
    41. MartyrMartyr ×2
    42. Wind
    43. MartyrMartyr ×2
    44. Wind
    45. MartyrMartyr
    46. Wind
    47. MartyrMartyr
    48. Wind
    49. MartyrMartyr
    50. Wind ×3
    51. MartyrMartyr
    52. Wind ×2
    53. MartyrMartyr ×2
    54. Wind ×2
    55. MartyrMartyr
    56. Wind
    57. NoctuaNoctua
    58. Wind
    59. NoctuaNoctua
    60. Wind
    61. NoctuaNoctua
    62. Wind
    63. NoctuaNoctua
    64. Wind
    65. Con turret
    66. NoctuaNoctua
    67. Wind
    68. NoctuaNoctua
    69. Wind
    70. NoctuaNoctua
    71. Con turret
    72. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    73. Con turret
    74. Con turret
    75. NoctuaNoctua
    76. Hardened Energy Storage
    77. NoctuaNoctua
    78. Con turret ×3
    79. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    80. Wind
    81. NoctuaNoctua
    82. Con turret
    83. Wind
    84. Con turret
    85. NoctuaNoctua
    86. Wind
    87. NoctuaNoctua
    88. Con turret
    89. Wind
    90. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    91. Con turret
    92. NoctuaNoctua
    93. Wind
    94. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    95. Wind
    96. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    97. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 11:58
    98. Wind
    99. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    100. Wind
    101. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    102. Wind
    103. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    104. Wind
    105. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    106. Wind
    107. NoctuaNoctua
    108. Wind
    109. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    110. Wind
    111. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    112. Wind
    113. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    114. Wind
    115. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    116. Wind
    117. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    118. Wind
    119. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    120. Wind
    121. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    122. Wind
    123. NoctuaNoctua ×6
    124. Wind
    125. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    126. Wind
    127. NoctuaNoctua
    128. Wind
    129. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    130. Wind
    131. NoctuaNoctua ×8
    132. Wind
    133. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    134. Wind
    135. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    136. Wind
    137. NoctuaNoctua ×7
    138. Wind
    139. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    140. VisionVision ×5
    141. NoctuaNoctua
    142. VisionVision ×4
    143. NoctuaNoctua
    144. VisionVision ×3
    145. Wind
    146. VisionVision ×3
    147. NoctuaNoctua
    148. VisionVision
    149. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    150. Wind
    151. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    152. Wind
    153. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    154. Wind
    155. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    156. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 14:45 · typical 10:29
    157. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    158. Wind
    159. NoctuaNoctua
    160. Wind
    161. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    162. Wind
    163. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    164. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    165. Wind ×8
    166. T2 converter
    167. Wind
    168. Con turret ×2
    169. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [Cookie]CottonBuds's (31 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

[Cookie]CottonBuds

30.9 OS · 04/10/2026

Open source match ↗

8 received units · includes a constructor
330 metal received · 25442 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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