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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 (79%)

#eco #air #team support · 22 distinct matches · 15 players · 86% of Legion Air games · team won 50% of 24 · 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 22 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 ~1:21, middle half 1:13–1:34

    Some games also: energy storage (33%)

    By 1:00 in all: 3 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind ×4
    3. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:19 · typical 1:21
  2. 2

    Legion Drone Plant to 5:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine9Wind
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Legion Construction Aircraft1 Legion Construction Aircraft
    Army
    • Noctua9 Noctua
    • Noctua2 Noctua for allies
    • Aeolus2 Aeolus for allies
    • Aeolus1 Aeolus
    • Hippotes1 Hippotes for allies

    Some games also: energy storage (50%) · mex (50%) · martyr (33%) · Vision (33%) · mex (33%)

    By 5:00 in all: 3 mex · 13 wind · 3 wind · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 23 steps
    1. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    2. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    3. NoctuaNoctua
    4. Wind
    5. NoctuaNoctua
    6. Wind ×2
    7. MartyrMartyr ×3
    8. NoctuaNoctuafor Beach sea
    9. Wind ×2
    10. NoctuaNoctuafor Beach sea
    11. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    12. HippotesHippotesfor Beach sea
    13. VisionVision
    14. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    15. Con turret
    16. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    17. Con turret
    18. Wind
    19. AeolusAeolus
    20. Wind
    21. HippotesHippotesfor Geo sea
    22. Con turret ×2
    23. AeolusAeolus
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine23Wind
    • Energy Converter10Converter
    Builders
    • Construction Turret3 Con turret
    Army
    • Noctua14 Noctua

    Some games also: Legion Drone Plant (42%) · wind (42%) · fusion (33%) · aeolus (33%)

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 27 wind · 16 wind · 10 converter · 1 energy storage · 5 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 148 steps
    1. Wind
    2. Energy storage
    3. NoctuaNoctua
    4. Mex
    5. NoctuaNoctua
    6. Wind
    7. NoctuaNoctua
    8. Wind
    9. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    10. Wind
    11. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    12. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 6:38 · typical 7:08
    13. Wind
    14. NoctuaNoctua
    15. Wind
    16. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    17. Con turret
    18. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    19. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 8:44
    20. Wind ×3
    21. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    22. Converter
    23. Wind
    24. Converter ×2
    25. Wind
    26. Converter ×4
    27. Wind
    28. Converter ×2
    29. Fusion ReactorFusion
    30. Converter
    31. Con turret
    32. Converter ×3
    33. Con turret
    34. Converter
    35. Con turret ×2
    36. Converter
    37. Con turret
    38. Fusion ReactorFusion
    39. Converter
    40. Wind
    41. Converter ×5
    42. Wind
    43. Converter ×3
    44. Wind
    45. Con turret ×2
    46. Wind
    47. Con turret ×5
    48. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 10:46
    49. Wind
    50. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    51. Con turret
    52. NoctuaNoctua
    53. Con turret ×3
    54. Wind
    55. NoctuaNoctua ×6
    56. Wind
    57. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    58. Wind
    59. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    60. Wind
    61. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    62. Wind
    63. NoctuaNoctua
    64. Wind
    65. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    66. Wind
    67. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    68. Wind
    69. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    70. Wind
    71. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    72. Wind
    73. NoctuaNoctua
    74. Wind
    75. NoctuaNoctua
    76. Wind
    77. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    78. Wind
    79. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    80. Wind
    81. NoctuaNoctua
    82. Wind
    83. NoctuaNoctua
    84. Wind
    85. NoctuaNoctua
    86. Wind
    87. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    88. Wind
    89. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    90. Wind
    91. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    92. Wind
    93. Con turret ×2
    94. NoctuaNoctua
    95. Con turret
    96. NoctuaNoctua
    97. Con turret ×3
    98. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    99. Wind
    100. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    101. Wind
    102. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    103. Wind
    104. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    105. Wind
    106. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    107. Wind
    108. NoctuaNoctua ×18
    109. Fusion ReactorFusion
    110. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    111. Converter ×3
    112. NoctuaNoctua
    113. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 13:51
    114. Converter
    115. NoctuaNoctua ×10
    116. Converter
    117. NoctuaNoctua ×9
    118. Converter
    119. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    120. Con turret
    121. NoctuaNoctua
    122. Con turret
    123. Converter
    124. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    125. Con turret
    126. Converter
    127. Con turret
    128. Converter
    129. Con turret
    130. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    131. Converter
    132. NoctuaNoctua
    133. Con turret
    134. NoctuaNoctua
    135. Converter
    136. NoctuaNoctua
    137. Con turret
    138. NoctuaNoctua
    139. Converter
    140. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    141. Converter
    142. NoctuaNoctua ×7
    143. Converter
    144. NoctuaNoctua ×7
    145. Converter
    146. NoctuaNoctua ×7
    147. Converter
    148. NoctuaNoctua ×8

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is SauceDispenser's (35 OS, 26/09/2026); 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 Pond or Geo seafirst at 2:08 · in 63% of games

You get

  • Wind Turbine2 Wind from Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 1:34 · in 46% of games
  • Wind Turbine3 Wind from Beach sea or Geo seafirst at 1:46 · in 42% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot from Tech or Geo seafirst at 2:27 · in 83% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 6:05 · in 79% 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

24 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0038900
2:0091800
3:00145300
4:0020133640
5:00270347113
6:003646117181
7:004989161232
8:006759250290
9:009034350380
10:0011410400405
11:0013952444545
12:0016448489785
13:00191378391595
14:002228915471850
15:002562420551895
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

SauceDispenser

35.0 OS · 26/09/2026

Open source match ↗

8 received units · includes a constructor
382 metal received · 109800 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Legion Drone Plant1:21Middle 50%: 1:13–1:34 · n=24
Advanced Metal Extractor7:08Middle 50%: 6:41–7:28 · n=20

Played most by

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