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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 · 52 distinct matches · 31 players · 78% of Legion Air games · team won 61% of 59 · 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 52 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 1:03 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 1:24 · 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
    • Noctua11 Noctua
    • Noctua2 Noctua for allies
    • Aeolus2 Aeolus for allies
    • Hippotes1 Hippotes for allies

    Some games also: converter (36%) · mex (32%) · con turret (31%)

    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 · 25 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    2. Wind ×2
    3. NoctuaNoctuafor Beach sea
    4. Wind ×2
    5. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    6. Wind
    7. NoctuaNoctua
    8. Wind ×3
    9. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraftfor Geo sea
    10. Wind
    11. NoctuaNoctua
    12. Wind
    13. Mex
    14. Wind
    15. NoctuaNoctua
    16. Wind
    17. Energy storage
    18. NoctuaNoctua
    19. Con turret
    20. MartyrMartyr
    21. Energy storage
    22. MartyrMartyr ×2
    23. Con turret
    24. MartyrMartyr ×4
    25. NoctuaNoctua ×6
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine18Wind
    • Wind Turbine2Wind
    • Energy Converter7Converter
    Order
    1. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plant in 75% of games
    Builders
    • Construction Turret3 Con turret
    Army
    • Noctua21 Noctua

    Some games also: Legion Drone Plant (47%) · fusion (41%) · aeolus (36%) · mosquito (34%) · Legion Construction Aircraft (34%)

    By 10:00 in all: 3 mex · 1 mex · 24 wind · 20 wind · 8 converter · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 54 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctua
    2. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    3. NoctuaNoctua ×14
    4. MartyrMartyr ×3
    5. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:22 · typical 7:03
    6. MartyrMartyr ×4
    7. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    8. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    9. NoctuaNoctua ×7
    10. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    11. NoctuaNoctua
    12. VisionVision ×2
    13. NoctuaNoctua
    14. VisionVision
    15. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    16. VisionVision ×4
    17. NoctuaNoctua ×8
    18. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    19. NoctuaNoctua
    20. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    21. NoctuaNoctua ×8
    22. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraftfor Geo sea
    23. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 12:28 · typical 10:29
    24. NoctuaNoctua
    25. Con turret
    26. NoctuaNoctua ×15
    27. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    28. Fusion ReactorFusion
    29. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    30. Con turret ×2
    31. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    32. Con turret
    33. NoctuaNoctua
    34. Con turret
    35. NoctuaNoctua
    36. Con turret
    37. NoctuaNoctua
    38. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    39. Con turret
    40. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    41. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    42. MosquitoMosquito
    43. Con turret
    44. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    45. CitadelAnti-nukedone 14:53
    46. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    47. Converter ×2
    48. MosquitoMosquito
    49. Converter ×2
    50. MosquitoMosquito
    51. NoctuaNoctua
    52. TracerTracer
    53. Converter
    54. NoctuaNoctua

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [Crd]HahnII's (30 OS, 10/09/2026); 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 1:50 · in 92% of games
  • Aeolus3 Aeolus to Tech or Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 2:18 · in 100% of games
  • Hippotes1 Hippotes to Beach seafirst at 2:33 · in 61% of games

You get

  • Wind Turbine3 Wind from Beach sea or Geo seafirst at 1:28 · in 39% of games
  • Wind Turbine2 Wind from Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 1:31 · in 41% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot from Techfirst at 2:24 · in 76% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 6:03 · 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

01k2k3k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

59 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0039100
2:0091500
3:00145000
4:0020234040
5:0027096080
6:003519145120
7:004740212150
8:006308255200
9:008574360206
10:0011072433360
11:0013546609411
12:0016288721720
13:00189829011300
14:002236313291575
15:002559821702023
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

[Crd]HahnII

30.2 OS · 10/09/2026

Open source match ↗

3 received units · includes a constructor
647 metal received · 107709 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=59
Advanced Metal Extractor7:03Middle 50%: 6:25–7:36 · n=51
Fusion Reactor10:29Middle 50%: 9:47–11:41 · n=33

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