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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 ×4
    3. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:20 · 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 · 26 steps
    1. MartyrMartyr
    2. Wind ×5
    3. MartyrMartyr
    4. Wind ×5
    5. NoctuaNoctua
    6. NoctuaNoctuafor Beach sea
    7. Wind ×2
    8. AeolusAeolusfor Beach sea
    9. Wind ×2
    10. NoctuaNoctua
    11. VisionVision
    12. Mex
    13. NoctuaNoctua
    14. VisionVision
    15. NoctuaNoctua
    16. MartyrMartyr
    17. Energy storage
    18. Wind
    19. MartyrMartyr ×2
    20. AeolusAeolus
    21. Wind
    22. MartyrMartyr
    23. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    24. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    25. Wind
    26. NoctuaNoctua ×2
  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 · 122 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctua
    2. Wind
    3. NoctuaNoctua
    4. VisionVision
    5. Wind ×2
    6. MartyrMartyr ×3
    7. Wind
    8. AeolusAeolus ×2
    9. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    10. Wind
    11. Con turret
    12. AeolusAeolus
    13. Con turret
    14. Wind
    15. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:38 · typical 7:11
    16. NoctuaNoctua
    17. Wind
    18. NoctuaNoctua
    19. Converter
    20. Wind
    21. NoctuaNoctua
    22. Wind
    23. Converter
    24. NoctuaNoctua
    25. Wind ×2
    26. Converter
    27. NoctuaNoctua
    28. Wind
    29. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    30. Converter
    31. Wind
    32. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    33. Wind
    34. NoctuaNoctua
    35. Wind
    36. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    37. Wind ×4
    38. Converter
    39. Wind
    40. VisionVision
    41. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    42. Converter
    43. Wind ×5
    44. Converter ×4
    45. Wind
    46. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    47. Converter
    48. MartyrMartyr
    49. Wind
    50. MartyrMartyr
    51. Con turret ×2
    52. MartyrMartyr
    53. Con turret
    54. MartyrMartyr
    55. Wind
    56. Converter
    57. MartyrMartyr
    58. Converter
    59. MartyrMartyr ×2
    60. Converter
    61. Wind
    62. MartyrMartyr
    63. Converter
    64. MartyrMartyr
    65. Wind
    66. Converter
    67. MartyrMartyr
    68. Converter
    69. MartyrMartyr
    70. Converter
    71. Wind
    72. Converter
    73. Wind
    74. Converter
    75. MartyrMartyr
    76. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 11:53
    77. Converter
    78. MartyrMartyr
    79. Wind ×2
    80. MartyrMartyr
    81. Wind ×2
    82. MartyrMartyr
    83. Con turret
    84. Wind ×2
    85. MartyrMartyr
    86. Wind
    87. MartyrMartyr
    88. Wind
    89. MartyrMartyr
    90. Con turret
    91. Wind
    92. MartyrMartyr
    93. Con turret
    94. Wind
    95. Con turret ×2
    96. MartyrMartyr
    97. Wind
    98. MartyrMartyr
    99. Wind
    100. Con turret
    101. MartyrMartyr
    102. Wind
    103. MartyrMartyr
    104. Converter
    105. MartyrMartyr
    106. Wind
    107. MartyrMartyr
    108. Converter
    109. NoctuaNoctua
    110. Wind
    111. Converter
    112. NoctuaNoctua
    113. Converter
    114. NoctuaNoctua ×27
    115. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 13:45
    116. NoctuaNoctua ×24
    117. VisionVision
    118. NoctuaNoctua ×50
    119. VisionVision ×14
    120. NoctuaNoctua
    121. VisionVision ×6
    122. NoctuaNoctua ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Rysica's (40 OS, 11/09/2026); 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

40.3 OS · 11/09/2026

Open source match ↗

3 received units · includes a constructor
546 metal received · 74277 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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