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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 ×3
    3. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:11 · 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 · 27 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctua
    2. Wind
    3. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    4. Wind ×3
    5. NoctuaNoctuafor Beach sea
    6. Wind
    7. HippotesHippotesfor Beach sea
    8. NoctuaNoctua
    9. NoctuaNoctuafor Tech
    10. Wind ×2
    11. NoctuaNoctua
    12. Wind ×2
    13. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    14. AeolusAeolusfor Geo
    15. Con turret
    16. Mex
    17. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    18. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    19. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    20. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    21. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    22. Wind
    23. NoctuaNoctua
    24. Con turret
    25. Wind ×2
    26. MosquitoMosquito
    27. Wind ×2
  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 · 62 steps
    1. Wind
    2. MosquitoMosquito
    3. Wind ×2
    4. NoctuaNoctua
    5. Wind
    6. NoctuaNoctua
    7. Wind
    8. NoctuaNoctua
    9. Wind
    10. MosquitoMosquito
    11. Wind
    12. MosquitoMosquito
    13. Wind
    14. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    15. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    16. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    17. MosquitoMosquito
    18. AeolusAeolus
    19. MosquitoMosquito
    20. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:53
    21. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    22. MosquitoMosquito
    23. NoctuaNoctua
    24. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    25. Energy storage
    26. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    27. Wind ×6
    28. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    29. Wind ×2
    30. NoctuaNoctua
    31. Wind
    32. NoctuaNoctua
    33. Wind
    34. NoctuaNoctua
    35. Wind
    36. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    37. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 12:42
    38. NoctuaNoctua
    39. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Tech
    40. Wind
    41. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Tech
    42. Con turret ×2
    43. NoctuaNoctua ×13for Tech
    44. Con turret
    45. NoctuaNoctuafor Tech
    46. Fusion ReactorFusion
    47. NoctuaNoctua ×3for Tech
    48. Con turret
    49. NoctuaNoctuafor Tech
    50. Con turret ×2
    51. NoctuaNoctuafor Tech
    52. Con turret ×2
    53. NoctuaNoctuafor Tech
    54. Con turret ×2
    55. NoctuaNoctua
    56. T2 converter
    57. Con turret
    58. NoctuaNoctua
    59. Con turret
    60. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    61. Con turret
    62. NoctuaNoctua ×5

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is pyrothraxus's (36 OS, 30/08/2026); 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

pyrothraxus

35.9 OS · 30/08/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
254 metal received · 16680 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

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