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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 ×6
    3. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:29 · 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. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Geo sea
    2. Wind ×2
    3. NoctuaNoctua
    4. Wind ×2
    5. NoctuaNoctua
    6. Wind
    7. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    8. HippotesHippotesfor Beach sea
    9. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    10. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    11. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    12. Mex
    13. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    14. Wind
    15. Wind
    16. Wind
    17. NoctuaNoctua
    18. Wind
    19. NoctuaNoctua
    20. Wind
    21. NoctuaNoctua
    22. AeolusAeolusfor Geo
    23. Con turret
  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 · 74 steps
    1. Con turret
    2. NoctuaNoctua ×6
    3. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 6:12 · typical 7:08
    4. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    5. Wind
    6. Wind
    7. NoctuaNoctua
    8. Wind ×2
    9. NoctuaNoctua
    10. Wind
    11. Wind
    12. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    13. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    14. Wind
    15. NoctuaNoctua
    16. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    17. Wind
    18. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    19. Wind ×2
    20. NoctuaNoctua
    21. Wind
    22. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    23. NoctuaNoctua
    24. Wind
    25. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    26. Wind
    27. NoctuaNoctua
    28. Wind
    29. NoctuaNoctua
    30. Wind
    31. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    32. Solar
    33. NoctuaNoctua
    34. Wind
    35. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    36. Con turret
    37. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    38. Solar
    39. NoctuaNoctua
    40. Con turret
    41. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    42. Con turret
    43. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    44. Con turret
    45. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    46. Energy storage
    47. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    48. Energy storage
    49. NoctuaNoctua ×19
    50. Con turret
    51. NoctuaNoctua
    52. Wind
    53. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    54. Wind
    55. Advanced solar
    56. NoctuaNoctua
    57. Wind
    58. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    59. Wind
    60. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    61. Advanced solar
    62. Wind
    63. NoctuaNoctua
    64. Wind
    65. NoctuaNoctua
    66. Wind
    67. NoctuaNoctua
    68. Wind
    69. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    70. Wind
    71. NoctuaNoctua
    72. Advanced solar
    73. Wind
    74. NoctuaNoctua

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Boozha's (35 OS, 09/09/2026); 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

Boozha

35.4 OS · 09/09/2026

Open source match ↗

8 received units · includes a constructor
46 metal received · 43281 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

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