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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is EpicTyrannus's (39 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 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

EpicTyrannus

38.8 OS · 07/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
129 metal received · 33808 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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