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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 1:19 · 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 · 29 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctuafor Beach sea
    2. Wind
    3. HippotesHippotesfor Beach sea
    4. Wind ×2
    5. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    6. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    7. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    8. Wind
    9. NoctuaNoctua
    10. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    11. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    12. Con turret
    13. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    14. NoctuaNoctua
    15. Mex
    16. NoctuaNoctua ×5
    17. Con turret
    18. Energy storage
    19. Wind
    20. Wind
    21. Wind
    22. NoctuaNoctua
    23. Wind
    24. Wind
    25. Con turret
    26. Wind
    27. NoctuaNoctua
    28. Wind
    29. Wind
  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 · 39 steps
    1. Converter
    2. Wind
    3. NoctuaNoctua
    4. Wind
    5. Wind
    6. NoctuaNoctua
    7. Wind
    8. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:04 · typical 7:03
    9. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    10. Wind
    11. Converter
    12. Wind
    13. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    14. Wind
    15. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    16. Wind ×2
    17. Solar ×2
    18. Wind
    19. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    20. Mexfor Beach sea
    21. Wind ×2
    22. Mexfor Beach sea
    23. Wind
    24. Mexfor Beach sea
    25. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 8:25
    26. Wind
    27. NoctuaNoctua
    28. Wind
    29. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    30. Converter
    31. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    32. Con turret
    33. NoctuaNoctua
    34. Converter
    35. NoctuaNoctua
    36. Wind
    37. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    38. Wind
    39. NoctuaNoctua

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is [Grump]Matsuri's (37 OS, 04/10/2026); 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 1:50 · 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

[Grump]Matsuri

37.4 OS · 04/10/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
122 metal received · 16810 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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