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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 (84%)

#eco #air #team support · 55 distinct matches · 32 players · 78% of Legion Air games · team won 60% of 62 · 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 55 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 (31%)

    By 1:02 in all: 3 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Solar
    3. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:08 · typical 1:24
  2. 2

    Legion Drone Plant to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine11Wind
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    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: energy storage (50%) · converter (37%) · mex (35%)

    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 · 36 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctua
    2. Wind ×5
    3. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    4. Wind ×4
    5. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    6. Wind ×3
    7. Energy storage
    8. HippotesHippotesfor Beach sea
    9. NoctuaNoctuafor Beach sea
    10. NoctuaNoctua
    11. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    12. NoctuaNoctua
    13. Con turret
    14. NoctuaNoctua
    15. Mex
    16. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    17. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    18. Wind
    19. Con turret
    20. NoctuaNoctua
    21. Converter
    22. Wind
    23. NoctuaNoctua
    24. Wind
    25. Converter
    26. Wind ×2
    27. Converter
    28. Wind
    29. NoctuaNoctua
    30. Con turret
    31. NoctuaNoctua
    32. Wind
    33. Converter
    34. Wind
    35. Converter
    36. Wind ×2
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine18Wind
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    • Energy Converter8Converter
    Order
    1. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plant in 74% of games
    Builders
    • Construction Turret3 Con turret
    Army
    • Noctua22 Noctua

    Some games also: Legion Drone Plant (47%) · fusion (39%) · Legion Construction Aircraft (35%) · aeolus (35%) · mosquito (34%)

    By 10:00 in all: 3 mex · 1 mex · 23 wind · 20 wind · 9 converter · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 46 steps
    1. Wind
    2. Converter
    3. AeolusAeolus
    4. Wind ×19
    5. Converter ×2
    6. Wind ×2
    7. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    8. Converter
    9. Wind ×3
    10. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 6:42
    11. Wind ×3
    12. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    13. Wind ×5
    14. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    15. Wind ×5
    16. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    17. Wind ×2
    18. Con turret ×4
    19. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 8:25
    20. NoctuaNoctua ×20
    21. Con turret ×2
    22. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    23. Con turret
    24. NoctuaNoctua ×20
    25. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 10:29
    26. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    27. T2 converter
    28. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    29. Con turret ×2
    30. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 10:47
    31. Con turret
    32. NoctuaNoctua
    33. Con turret
    34. NoctuaNoctua
    35. Con turret ×2
    36. NoctuaNoctua
    37. Con turret
    38. NoctuaNoctua ×121
    39. Fusion ReactorFusion
    40. NoctuaNoctua
    41. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    42. T2 converter
    43. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 14:00
    44. NoctuaNoctua
    45. MosquitoMosquito ×20
    46. NoctuaNoctua ×28

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Alexspeed's (34 OS, 11/09/2026); 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 2:16 · in 100% of games
  • Hippotes1 Hippotes to Beach seafirst at 2:36 · in 60% 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 42% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot from Techfirst at 2:24 · in 74% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 6:05 · in 82% 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

62 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0039000
2:0091500
3:00145100
4:0020243640
5:0027106080
6:003524123120
7:004754196148
8:006356255200
9:008463360223
10:0010948413360
11:0013492521426
12:0016089674735
13:00190628571270
14:002240812951573
15:002560222141949
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

Alexspeed

34.4 OS · 11/09/2026

Open source match ↗

9 received units · includes a constructor
655 metal received · 97596 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=62
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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