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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 · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind ×4
    3. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:21 · 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 · 17 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    2. Wind ×3
    3. HippotesHippotesfor Beach sea
    4. Wind ×2
    5. NoctuaNoctua ×11for Beach sea
    6. NoctuaNoctua
    7. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Geo
    8. NoctuaNoctua
    9. Mex
    10. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    11. Wind ×2
    12. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    13. Wind ×4
    14. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    15. Con turret
    16. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Geo
    17. Con turret
  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 · 174 steps
    1. Wind
    2. Wind
    3. Wind
    4. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    5. Wind
    6. Wind
    7. Wind ×2
    8. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    9. Wind
    10. Energy storage
    11. Wind
    12. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    13. Wind ×2
    14. Converter ×2
    15. Wind
    16. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    17. Converter ×3
    18. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    19. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexnot finished by 15:00 · typical 7:04
    20. Converter
    21. Wind
    22. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    23. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    24. Wind
    25. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    26. Wind ×2
    27. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    28. Wind
    29. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    30. Wind ×2
    31. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    32. Wind ×4
    33. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    34. Con turret
    35. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    36. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    37. Con turret
    38. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Geo
    39. Wind
    40. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    41. Wind
    42. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    43. Wind ×4
    44. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    45. Wind ×2
    46. NoctuaNoctua
    47. Wind
    48. NoctuaNoctua
    49. Wind
    50. NoctuaNoctua
    51. Wind
    52. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    53. NoctuaNoctua
    54. Wind
    55. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    56. Con turret
    57. NoctuaNoctua
    58. Wind
    59. NoctuaNoctua
    60. Wind
    61. NoctuaNoctua
    62. Wind
    63. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    64. Wind
    65. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    66. Wind
    67. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    68. Wind
    69. NoctuaNoctua
    70. Wind
    71. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 10:34 · typical 10:29
    72. NoctuaNoctua
    73. Wind ×2
    74. NoctuaNoctua
    75. Wind ×6
    76. Fusion ReactorFusion
    77. NoctuaNoctua
    78. Con turret
    79. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    80. Con turret ×3
    81. Converter
    82. Con turret
    83. Converter ×2
    84. Wind
    85. Converter
    86. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    87. Wind
    88. Converter
    89. Wind
    90. Converter
    91. Wind
    92. Converter
    93. Wind
    94. Fusion ReactorFusion
    95. Converter
    96. Con turret
    97. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    98. Con turret ×2
    99. Converter
    100. Wind
    101. Con turret
    102. Converter
    103. Con turret
    104. Converter ×2
    105. Con turret
    106. Converter
    107. Con turret
    108. Converter
    109. Wind
    110. Con turret
    111. Converter
    112. Con turret
    113. Converter
    114. Con turret
    115. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 13:19
    116. Wind
    117. Converter
    118. Wind ×2
    119. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    120. Wind
    121. Converter
    122. Wind ×2
    123. NoctuaNoctua
    124. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    125. Wind
    126. NoctuaNoctua
    127. Converter
    128. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    129. NoctuaNoctua
    130. Wind
    131. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    132. NoctuaNoctua
    133. Converter
    134. NoctuaNoctua
    135. Converter
    136. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    137. Converter
    138. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    139. Wind
    140. Converter
    141. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    142. Converter
    143. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    144. Wind
    145. Converter
    146. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    147. Converter
    148. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    149. Wind
    150. NoctuaNoctua
    151. Converter
    152. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    153. Converter
    154. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    155. Wind
    156. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    157. Converter
    158. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    159. Wind
    160. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    161. Wind
    162. NoctuaNoctua ×7
    163. Wind
    164. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    165. Energy storage
    166. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    167. Wind
    168. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    169. Energy storage
    170. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    171. T2 converter
    172. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    173. Wind
    174. NoctuaNoctua ×10

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Hunfore's (33 OS, 10/10/2026); 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

Hunfore

32.9 OS · 10/10/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
134 metal received · 79463 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

Hunfore6games of this buildBoozha5games of this buildTheGeneraI5games of this buildXuunnY5games of this buildAlexspeed3games of this build