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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 ×5
    3. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:22 · 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 · 18 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctua
    2. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Geo sea
    3. Wind
    4. HippotesHippotesfor Beach sea
    5. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    6. Wind ×6
    7. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    8. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    9. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    10. Con turret
    11. Wind ×8
    12. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    13. Energy storage
    14. Con turret
    15. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    16. Mex
    17. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    18. AeolusAeolusfor Geo
  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 · 54 steps
    1. MosquitoMosquito ×6
    2. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    3. MosquitoMosquito ×3
    4. Con turret
    5. MosquitoMosquito
    6. Converter
    7. NoctuaNoctua
    8. Converter
    9. NoctuaNoctua
    10. Converter
    11. NoctuaNoctua
    12. Converter
    13. NoctuaNoctua
    14. Converter
    15. NoctuaNoctua
    16. Converter
    17. NoctuaNoctua
    18. Converter
    19. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    20. Converter
    21. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:37 · typical 7:11
    22. NoctuaNoctua ×8
    23. MosquitoMosquito
    24. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    25. Con turret
    26. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    27. Wind
    28. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 10:29
    29. AeolusAeolus
    30. Con turret
    31. Wind
    32. Con turret ×2
    33. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    34. Con turret
    35. NoctuaNoctua
    36. Wind
    37. Con turret
    38. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    39. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 10:35
    40. NoctuaNoctua ×12
    41. Fusion ReactorFusion
    42. NoctuaNoctua ×23
    43. Converter ×11
    44. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 12:50
    45. Con turret ×3
    46. MosquitoMosquito
    47. Con turret ×4
    48. MosquitoMosquito
    49. Con turret ×3
    50. MosquitoMosquito ×3
    51. CitadelAnti-nukedone 14:07
    52. MosquitoMosquito ×8
    53. NoctuaNoctua ×49
    54. Fusion ReactorFusion

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Rosie's (36 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 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

Rosie

35.6 OS · 24/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
93 metal received · 85196 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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