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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is XuunnY's (33 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 2:16 · 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

XuunnY

33.1 OS · 07/09/2026

Open source match ↗

8 received units · includes a constructor
487 metal received · 105616 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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