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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 · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind ×2
    3. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:08 · 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 · 34 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctua
    2. Wind
    3. MartyrMartyr
    4. Wind ×2
    5. MartyrMartyr
    6. Wind
    7. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    8. Wind
    9. NoctuaNoctua
    10. Wind
    11. Energy storage
    12. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    13. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    14. MartyrMartyr ×2
    15. VisionVision ×2
    16. HippotesHippotesfor Beach sea
    17. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    18. Con turret
    19. MosquitoMosquito
    20. AeolusAeolus
    21. NoctuaNoctua
    22. Mex
    23. NoctuaNoctua
    24. VisionVision
    25. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    26. Wind
    27. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    28. AeolusAeolus
    29. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    30. Wind
    31. Converter
    32. NoctuaNoctua
    33. Converter
    34. 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 · 190 steps
    1. Converter
    2. Wind
    3. Converter
    4. Wind
    5. Converter ×2
    6. Wind
    7. NoctuaNoctua
    8. Converter
    9. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    10. Wind
    11. NoctuaNoctua
    12. Con turret
    13. NoctuaNoctua
    14. Wind
    15. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 6:56 · typical 7:11
    16. AeolusAeolus
    17. NoctuaNoctua
    18. Wind
    19. AeolusAeolus
    20. Wind
    21. Con turret
    22. Wind ×2
    23. NoctuaNoctua
    24. Wind
    25. NoctuaNoctua
    26. Wind
    27. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    28. Converter
    29. NoctuaNoctua
    30. Wind
    31. Converter
    32. Wind ×3
    33. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    34. Wind ×2
    35. Converter
    36. Wind ×3
    37. Converter
    38. Wind ×2
    39. Converter
    40. Wind ×2
    41. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    42. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 8:42
    43. Con turret
    44. Wind
    45. Bot LabBot Labdone 8:48
    46. Converter
    47. Construction BotCon bot
    48. Converter
    49. Wind
    50. Construction BotCon bot
    51. Wind
    52. Converter
    53. Wind
    54. Construction BotCon bot
    55. Wind
    56. Construction BotCon bot
    57. Wind
    58. Construction BotCon bot
    59. Wind
    60. Construction BotCon bot
    61. Wind ×3
    62. Construction BotCon bot
    63. Wind
    64. Construction BotCon bot
    65. Wind ×2
    66. Construction BotCon bot
    67. Wind ×3
    68. Construction BotCon bot
    69. Wind ×6
    70. NoctuaNoctua
    71. Wind ×3
    72. NoctuaNoctua
    73. Wind
    74. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    75. Wind
    76. NoctuaNoctua
    77. Wind ×2
    78. NoctuaNoctua
    79. Wind ×3
    80. NoctuaNoctua
    81. Con turret
    82. NoctuaNoctua
    83. Wind ×5
    84. Con turret
    85. Wind ×2
    86. NoctuaNoctua
    87. Wind ×3
    88. Con turret
    89. Wind
    90. NoctuaNoctua
    91. Wind ×2
    92. Con turret
    93. Wind
    94. NoctuaNoctua
    95. Wind ×2
    96. NoctuaNoctua
    97. Wind
    98. Con turret
    99. NoctuaNoctua
    100. Con turret
    101. NoctuaNoctua
    102. Wind ×4
    103. NoctuaNoctua
    104. Wind ×2
    105. Con turret
    106. NoctuaNoctua
    107. Wind
    108. Con turret
    109. Wind
    110. NoctuaNoctua
    111. Wind
    112. Con turret
    113. NoctuaNoctua
    114. Wind ×3
    115. Legion Advanced Aircraft PlantLegion Advanced Aircraft Plantdone 11:59
    116. NoctuaNoctua
    117. Wind
    118. NoctuaNoctua
    119. Wind ×19
    120. Converter
    121. Wind
    122. Converter
    123. Wind ×2
    124. Converter
    125. Wind
    126. Converter
    127. PhoenixPhoenixdone 12:23
    128. Converter
    129. Wind ×4
    130. Converter
    131. Wind ×3
    132. Converter
    133. Wind ×6
    134. PhoenixPhoenix
    135. Wind
    136. Converter
    137. Wind ×12
    138. PhoenixPhoenix
    139. Wind
    140. Converter
    141. Wind ×11
    142. PhoenixPhoenix
    143. Converter
    144. Wind ×10
    145. Converter ×2
    146. Wind ×5
    147. Converter
    148. Wind ×2
    149. Converter
    150. Wind
    151. Converter ×2
    152. Wind ×6
    153. AjaxAjax
    154. Wind ×3
    155. AjaxAjax
    156. Wind ×2
    157. AjaxAjax
    158. Wind ×3
    159. AjaxAjax
    160. Wind ×4
    161. AjaxAjax
    162. Wind
    163. AjaxAjax
    164. Wind ×2
    165. AjaxAjax
    166. Wind ×4
    167. AjaxAjax
    168. Wind ×2
    169. AjaxAjax
    170. Wind
    171. AjaxAjax
    172. Wind ×4
    173. AjaxAjax
    174. Wind
    175. AjaxAjax
    176. Wind ×4
    177. AjaxAjax
    178. Wind ×2
    179. AjaxAjax ×2
    180. Wind ×4
    181. AjaxAjax
    182. Wind
    183. AjaxAjax
    184. Wind
    185. AjaxAjax
    186. Wind ×5
    187. AjaxAjax
    188. Wind ×2
    189. AjaxAjax
    190. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Rysica's (40 OS, 04/09/2026); 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 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

Rysica

39.9 OS · 04/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
202 metal received · 73246 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

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