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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 · 2 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:09 · 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 · 34 steps
    1. Wind ×2
    2. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    3. Wind ×4
    4. NoctuaNoctua
    5. Wind
    6. NoctuaNoctua
    7. Wind ×2
    8. NoctuaNoctua
    9. Mex
    10. Wind ×2
    11. Energy storage
    12. Wind
    13. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    14. Con turret
    15. NoctuaNoctua ×7
    16. Con turret
    17. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    18. Wind
    19. NoctuaNoctua
    20. Wind
    21. Wind
    22. NoctuaNoctua
    23. Wind
    24. Wind
    25. NoctuaNoctua
    26. Wind
    27. Wind
    28. NoctuaNoctua
    29. Wind
    30. NoctuaNoctua
    31. Wind
    32. NoctuaNoctua
    33. Wind
    34. NoctuaNoctua
  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 · 64 steps
    1. Wind
    2. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    3. Wind
    4. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    5. Wind
    6. NoctuaNoctua
    7. Wind
    8. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    9. Wind
    10. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    11. Wind
    12. NoctuaNoctua
    13. Wind
    14. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    15. Wind
    16. MosquitoMosquito
    17. Wind
    18. MosquitoMosquito
    19. Wind
    20. AeolusAeolusfor Geo
    21. Wind
    22. MosquitoMosquito
    23. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    24. Wind
    25. MosquitoMosquito
    26. Wind
    27. MosquitoMosquito
    28. Wind
    29. MosquitoMosquito
    30. Wind
    31. MosquitoMosquito
    32. Wind
    33. MosquitoMosquito
    34. Wind
    35. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:20 · typical 7:03
    36. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    37. Wind ×4
    38. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    39. Wind
    40. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    41. Wind ×6
    42. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    43. Wind ×8
    44. Bot LabBot Labdone 10:51
    45. Construction BotCon bot
    46. Wind
    47. Construction BotCon bot
    48. Wind
    49. Construction BotCon bot
    50. Con turret
    51. Wind
    52. Construction BotCon bot
    53. Wind
    54. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    55. Wind
    56. Con turret
    57. Construction BotCon bot
    58. Wind
    59. Construction BotCon bot
    60. Wind
    61. Construction BotCon bot
    62. Wind
    63. Construction BotCon bot
    64. Wind ×6

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Afussy's (33 OS, 08/09/2026); 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

Afussy

33.3 OS · 08/09/2026

Open source match ↗

9 received units · includes a constructor
539 metal received · 52405 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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