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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 · 7 steps
    1. Mex
    2. Wind
    3. Mex ×2
    4. Wind ×3
    5. Solar
    6. Wind ×2
    7. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:41 · 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 · 29 steps
    1. AeolusAeolusfor Beach sea
    2. Wind
    3. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    4. Wind
    5. Solar
    6. MosquitoMosquito
    7. NoctuaNoctua
    8. Wind
    9. NoctuaNoctuafor Beach sea
    10. Wind
    11. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    12. NoctuaNoctua
    13. Wind
    14. NoctuaNoctua
    15. Wind ×2
    16. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    17. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    18. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    19. Con turret
    20. NoctuaNoctua
    21. Mex
    22. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    23. MosquitoMosquito
    24. Energy storage
    25. NoctuaNoctua
    26. Wind
    27. NoctuaNoctua
    28. HippotesHippotesfor Pond
    29. Wind ×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 · 95 steps
    1. Wind
    2. NoctuaNoctua
    3. Wind
    4. Converter
    5. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    6. Wind
    7. NoctuaNoctua
    8. Converter
    9. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    10. Wind
    11. NoctuaNoctua
    12. Converter
    13. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    14. Converter
    15. NoctuaNoctua
    16. Wind
    17. NoctuaNoctua
    18. Con turret
    19. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    20. Wind
    21. NoctuaNoctua
    22. Con turret
    23. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    24. Wind
    25. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    26. Wind
    27. Con turret
    28. Wind ×6
    29. Con turret
    30. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:08 · typical 7:04
    31. Wind
    32. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×2
    33. Wind ×2
    34. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    35. Wind
    36. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 8:50
    37. Con turret
    38. NoctuaNoctua ×25
    39. Advanced solar
    40. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    41. Advanced solar
    42. Con turret ×3
    43. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 10:31
    44. NoctuaNoctua ×10
    45. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 11:42 · typical 10:29
    46. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    47. Converter ×2
    48. Fusion ReactorFusion
    49. Converter ×4
    50. T2 converter
    51. Converter
    52. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 13:11
    53. Converter
    54. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 13:21
    55. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    56. Converter
    57. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    58. Converter
    59. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    60. Converter
    61. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    62. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft ×2
    63. Converter
    64. NoctuaNoctua ×6
    65. Converter
    66. BlindfoldBlindfold
    67. MosquitoMosquito
    68. BlindfoldBlindfold
    69. MosquitoMosquito
    70. Converter
    71. Con turret
    72. MosquitoMosquito
    73. Con turret ×2
    74. Converter
    75. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    76. BlindfoldBlindfold
    77. MosquitoMosquito
    78. Converter
    79. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    80. MosquitoMosquito
    81. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    82. MosquitoMosquito ×3
    83. Converter
    84. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    85. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    86. MosquitoMosquito
    87. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    88. Converter
    89. NoctuaNoctua ×6
    90. RhapsisRhapsis
    91. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    92. Converter
    93. NoctuaNoctua ×9
    94. Converter
    95. NoctuaNoctua ×3

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is TheGeneraI's (34 OS, 07/09/2026); 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

34.0 OS · 07/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
134 metal received · 27321 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

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