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Legion Air build order · Supreme Isthmus

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 (83%)

#eco #air #team support · 53 distinct matches · 31 players · 78% of Legion Air games · team won 60% of 60 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Legion Drone Plant by 1:21

  1. Take mex and wind while queuing the drone plant early.
  2. Get the drone plant up before 1:33 to start the economy base.
  3. Add an advanced mex to keep scaling economy for the team.
  4. Bring a fusion reactor online to support later tech.
  5. Supply allies with Noctua, Aeolus and Hippotes while building Noctua bombers.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 53 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 ~1:24, middle half 1:16–1:35

    Some games also: energy storage (32%)

    By 1:02 in all: 3 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 5 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Wind
    3. Mex
    4. Wind ×4
    5. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:26 · typical 1:24
  2. 2

    Legion Drone Plant to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine11Wind
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    • Legion Construction Aircraft1 Legion Construction Aircraft
    Army
    • Noctua12 Noctua
    • Noctua2 Noctua for allies
    • Aeolus2 Aeolus for allies
    • Hippotes1 Hippotes for allies

    Some games also: converter (37%) · mex (33%) · con turret (30%)

    By 5:00 in all: 3 mex · 1 mex · 15 wind · 3 wind · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 41 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctua
    2. Wind
    3. NoctuaNoctuafor Beach sea
    4. Wind
    5. Energy storage
    6. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    7. Wind
    8. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    9. Wind
    10. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    11. BrambleBramble
    12. HippotesHippotesfor Beach sea
    13. Mex
    14. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    15. Con turret
    16. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    17. Converter
    18. NoctuaNoctua
    19. Wind
    20. AeolusAeolus ×2for Tech
    21. AeolusAeolus
    22. Wind
    23. AeolusAeolus
    24. Wind
    25. Wind
    26. NoctuaNoctua
    27. Wind
    28. NoctuaNoctua
    29. Wind
    30. NoctuaNoctua
    31. Wind
    32. Converter
    33. Wind
    34. NoctuaNoctua
    35. BlindfoldBlindfold
    36. Wind ×2
    37. MosquitoMosquito
    38. Wind
    39. Wind
    40. MosquitoMosquito
    41. NoctuaNoctua ×2
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine18Wind
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    • Energy Converter8Converter
    Order
    1. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plant in 75% of games
    Builders
    • Construction Turret3 Con turret
    Army
    • Noctua22 Noctua

    Some games also: Legion Drone Plant (47%) · fusion (40%) · aeolus (37%) · Legion Construction Aircraft (35%) · mosquito (33%)

    By 10:00 in all: 3 mex · 1 mex · 24 wind · 20 wind · 9 converter · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 140 steps
    1. Wind
    2. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    3. Wind
    4. Wind
    5. Wind
    6. NoctuaNoctua
    7. Wind
    8. Wind
    9. Wind
    10. NoctuaNoctua
    11. Wind
    12. Con turret
    13. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 6:25 · typical 7:04
    14. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    15. Wind
    16. Con turret
    17. Wind
    18. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    19. Converter
    20. Wind
    21. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    22. Wind
    23. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    24. Wind ×6
    25. Con turret
    26. Wind
    27. Con turret ×2
    28. Wind ×2
    29. Con turret ×2
    30. Wind
    31. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 8:36
    32. NoctuaNoctua
    33. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    34. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    35. Converter
    36. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    37. Converter
    38. NettleNettle
    39. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    40. Converter
    41. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    42. Metal storage
    43. Converter
    44. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    45. Converter
    46. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    47. Converter
    48. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    49. Converter
    50. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    51. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 9:58 · typical 10:29
    52. NoctuaNoctua
    53. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    54. Converter
    55. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    56. Wind
    57. BrambleBramble
    58. Wind
    59. Fusion ReactorFusion
    60. Converter ×2
    61. Wind
    62. T2 converter
    63. Converter
    64. Wind
    65. Converter ×2
    66. Wind ×2
    67. Converter
    68. Wind
    69. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plant ×2done 11:22
    70. Converter
    71. Wind
    72. NoctuaNoctua ×8
    73. Con turret
    74. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    75. Wind
    76. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    77. Con turret
    78. NoctuaNoctua ×9
    79. Wind
    80. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    81. Con turret
    82. NoctuaNoctua
    83. Converter
    84. NoctuaNoctua ×11
    85. Wind
    86. Converter
    87. NoctuaNoctua ×15
    88. Converter
    89. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    90. Wind
    91. NoctuaNoctua ×8
    92. Converter
    93. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    94. Wind
    95. NoctuaNoctua ×8
    96. Converter
    97. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    98. MosquitoMosquito
    99. Wind
    100. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    101. Con turret ×2
    102. NoctuaNoctua
    103. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    104. Con turret
    105. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    106. Converter
    107. NoctuaNoctua
    108. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    109. NoctuaNoctua
    110. MosquitoMosquito
    111. Wind
    112. NoctuaNoctua ×10
    113. NettleNettle
    114. NoctuaNoctua ×10
    115. MartyrMartyr ×15
    116. Wind
    117. MartyrMartyr ×11
    118. NoctuaNoctua
    119. MartyrMartyr
    120. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    121. MartyrMartyr
    122. NoctuaNoctua
    123. MartyrMartyr
    124. Wind
    125. NoctuaNoctua
    126. MartyrMartyr
    127. NoctuaNoctua ×8
    128. Wind
    129. NoctuaNoctua ×7
    130. Wind
    131. NoctuaNoctua ×10
    132. Wind
    133. NoctuaNoctua ×8
    134. Wind
    135. NoctuaNoctua
    136. VisionVision ×2
    137. NoctuaNoctua
    138. VisionVision ×14
    139. NoctuaNoctua
    140. VisionVision ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is TheGeneraI's (31 OS, 24/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Noctua2 Noctua to Geo or Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 1:49 · in 92% of games
  • Aeolus3 Aeolus to Tech or Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 2:17 · in 100% of games
  • Hippotes1 Hippotes to Beach seafirst at 2:36 · in 62% of games

You get

  • Wind Turbine3 Wind from Beach sea or Geo seafirst at 1:28 · in 38% of games
  • Wind Turbine2 Wind from Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 1:30 · in 42% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot from Techfirst at 2:24 · in 77% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 6:05 · in 85% 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

60 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0039100
2:0091500
3:00145100
4:0020213640
5:0027086080
6:003512135120
7:004698207148
8:006273260200
9:008553360223
10:0011029425360
11:0013529572426
12:0016204702735
13:00189188851270
14:002228913371580
15:002551422141996
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

This Legion air baseline wins half its games, with far lower losses and kills than the front-facing roles by 15:00.

  • + Lowest own metal lost among air builds shown, 1850 by 15:00.
  • − Enemy metal destroyed stays low at 2055 by 15:00, little offensive impact.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

TheGeneraI

30.7 OS · 24/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
7 metal received · 75907 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Legion Drone Plant1:24Middle 50%: 1:16–1:35 · n=60
Advanced Metal Extractor7:04Middle 50%: 6:26–7:37 · n=52
Fusion Reactor10:29Middle 50%: 9:47–11:41 · n=33

Played most by

Hunfore6games of this buildBoozha5games of this buildTheGeneraI5games of this buildXuunnY5games of this buildAlexspeed3games of this build