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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 · 4 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind ×4
    3. Energy storage
    4. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:34 · 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 · 45 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctuafor Beach sea
    2. Wind
    3. HippotesHippotes
    4. Wind ×2
    5. NoctuaNoctua
    6. AeolusAeolusfor Beach sea
    7. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    8. NoctuaNoctua
    9. Wind
    10. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    11. Wind ×2
    12. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    13. Wind ×2
    14. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    15. Wind ×2
    16. Mex
    17. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    18. Con turret ×2
    19. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    20. Converter
    21. Wind
    22. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    23. Converter
    24. Con turret
    25. Converter
    26. Wind
    27. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    28. Con turret
    29. Converter
    30. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    31. Wind
    32. Converter
    33. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    34. Wind
    35. Converter
    36. Wind ×3
    37. Converter
    38. Wind
    39. Converter
    40. Wind ×2
    41. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    42. Wind
    43. Converter
    44. NoctuaNoctua
    45. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
  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 · 142 steps
    1. Wind
    2. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Geo
    3. Wind ×3
    4. Wind ×2
    5. Wind
    6. Wind
    7. Wind
    8. Wind
    9. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    10. Wind
    11. Wind
    12. Wind
    13. Wind
    14. Wind
    15. Wind ×2
    16. Wind
    17. Wind
    18. Wind
    19. Wind ×2
    20. Wind ×2
    21. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×4done 7:02 · typical 7:04
    22. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 8:55 · typical 10:29
    23. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 9:08
    24. Con turret ×2
    25. Converter
    26. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Geo
    27. Con turret ×2
    28. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Geo
    29. Converter
    30. NoctuaNoctua ×3for Geo
    31. MosquitoMosquito
    32. Con turret
    33. Converter
    34. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    35. Converter
    36. MosquitoMosquito
    37. Con turret
    38. Converter
    39. MosquitoMosquito ×2
    40. Con turret
    41. MosquitoMosquito
    42. Converter
    43. MosquitoMosquito
    44. Con turret
    45. MosquitoMosquito
    46. Converter
    47. Con turret
    48. MosquitoMosquito
    49. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    50. Con turret
    51. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    52. Converter
    53. NoctuaNoctua ×5for Geo
    54. Converter
    55. NoctuaNoctua ×5for Geo
    56. Converter
    57. NoctuaNoctua ×3for Geo
    58. Wind
    59. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Geo
    60. Converter
    61. NoctuaNoctua ×5for Geo
    62. Converter
    63. NoctuaNoctua ×4for Geo
    64. Converter
    65. Wind
    66. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Geo
    67. Wind
    68. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo
    69. Converter
    70. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    71. Wind
    72. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    73. Converter
    74. NoctuaNoctua ×6
    75. Converter
    76. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    77. Fusion ReactorFusion
    78. NoctuaNoctua
    79. Converter
    80. NoctuaNoctua
    81. Converter ×2
    82. Wind
    83. Converter
    84. NoctuaNoctua
    85. Converter ×2
    86. NoctuaNoctua
    87. AeolusAeolusfor Beach sea
    88. Wind
    89. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    90. Converter
    91. NoctuaNoctua
    92. Wind
    93. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    94. Wind
    95. NoctuaNoctua
    96. Converter
    97. Wind
    98. NoctuaNoctua
    99. Wind
    100. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    101. Wind
    102. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    103. Wind
    104. NoctuaNoctua
    105. Converter
    106. NoctuaNoctua
    107. Wind
    108. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    109. Wind
    110. NoctuaNoctua
    111. Converter
    112. NoctuaNoctua
    113. Wind
    114. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    115. Wind
    116. Converter
    117. NoctuaNoctua ×9
    118. Converter
    119. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    120. Advanced Fusion ReactorAdvanced Fusion Reactordone 14:54
    121. Wind
    122. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    123. Converter
    124. Wind
    125. Converter
    126. NoctuaNoctua
    127. Wind
    128. Converter
    129. NoctuaNoctua
    130. Con turret
    131. Converter
    132. Con turret
    133. Converter
    134. Con turret
    135. NoctuaNoctua
    136. Con turret
    137. NoctuaNoctua
    138. Converter
    139. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    140. Legion Drone PlantEat Legion Drone Plantreclaimed for its metal
    141. Converter ×9
    142. Legion Advanced Aircraft PlantLegion Advanced Aircraft Plantnot finished by 15:00

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Lexosis's (39 OS, 03/10/2026); 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

Lexosis

38.5 OS · 03/10/2026

Open source match ↗

4 received units · includes a constructor
1856 metal received · 156368 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

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