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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 · 4 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind ×4
    3. Solar
    4. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:23 · 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 · 23 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    2. Wind
    3. NoctuaNoctua
    4. Wind
    5. NoctuaNoctua
    6. Wind
    7. NoctuaNoctua
    8. Wind ×2
    9. NoctuaNoctua
    10. BlindfoldBlindfold
    11. Wind ×2
    12. AeolusAeolus ×3for Geo sea
    13. Mex
    14. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    15. Con turret
    16. NoctuaNoctua
    17. Wind
    18. Con turret
    19. NoctuaNoctua
    20. Con turret
    21. Wind
    22. Con turret
    23. 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 · 142 steps
    1. Wind
    2. Con turret
    3. Wind ×10
    4. Energy storage
    5. Wind ×3
    6. Con turret
    7. Wind
    8. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 6:26
    9. Wind
    10. Solar ×2
    11. Wind ×2
    12. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:01 · typical 7:11
    13. Wind ×2
    14. Solar
    15. Wind ×2
    16. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    17. Wind
    18. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    19. Wind
    20. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    21. NoctuaNoctua
    22. Wind
    23. Converter
    24. NoctuaNoctua
    25. Wind
    26. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    27. Wind
    28. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    29. Converter
    30. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    31. Converter
    32. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    33. Converter
    34. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    35. MosquitoMosquito
    36. Converter
    37. MosquitoMosquito
    38. Wind
    39. Converter
    40. MosquitoMosquito
    41. Wind
    42. MosquitoMosquito
    43. Wind
    44. MosquitoMosquito
    45. Wind
    46. MosquitoMosquito
    47. Wind
    48. MosquitoMosquito
    49. Wind
    50. MosquitoMosquito
    51. Wind
    52. MosquitoMosquito
    53. Wind
    54. MosquitoMosquito
    55. Wind
    56. NoctuaNoctua
    57. Wind
    58. NoctuaNoctua
    59. Wind
    60. NoctuaNoctua
    61. Wind
    62. NoctuaNoctua
    63. MartyrMartyr ×2
    64. Wind
    65. MartyrMartyr
    66. Wind
    67. MartyrMartyr ×3
    68. Wind
    69. MartyrMartyr ×2
    70. Wind
    71. MartyrMartyr
    72. Wind
    73. MartyrMartyr ×2
    74. Wind
    75. MartyrMartyr
    76. Wind
    77. MartyrMartyr
    78. Con turret
    79. MartyrMartyr
    80. Con turret
    81. MartyrMartyr
    82. Wind
    83. Con turret
    84. MartyrMartyr
    85. Con turret
    86. MartyrMartyr
    87. Con turret
    88. MartyrMartyr ×3
    89. NoctuaNoctua
    90. Wind
    91. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    92. Wind
    93. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    94. Wind
    95. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    96. Wind
    97. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    98. Wind
    99. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    100. Wind
    101. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    102. Wind
    103. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    104. Wind
    105. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    106. Wind
    107. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    108. Wind
    109. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    110. Wind
    111. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    112. Wind
    113. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    114. Wind
    115. NoctuaNoctua
    116. VisionVision ×5
    117. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    118. Wind
    119. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    120. Con turret
    121. Wind
    122. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    123. Con turret ×2
    124. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    125. Wind
    126. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    127. Wind
    128. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    129. Advanced Fusion ReactorAdvanced Fusion Reactornot finished by 15:00
    130. NoctuaNoctua
    131. Wind
    132. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    133. Converter
    134. Con turret
    135. Converter ×4
    136. FerretFerret
    137. Converter ×2
    138. FerretFerret
    139. Converter
    140. FerretFerret
    141. Converter ×3
    142. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is SauceDispenser's (35 OS, 02/09/2026); 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

SauceDispenser

35.4 OS · 02/09/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
129 metal received · 35163 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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