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Standard beach sea

Legion Beach sea build order · Supreme Isthmus

Builds a shipyard early, gets a Syracusia out fast to contest or scout enemy sea entry, then expands into an Advanced Metal Extractor and more navy over the first 15 minutes.

Usually shipyard first (82%)

#naval #eco · 49 distinct matches · 27 players · 75% of Legion Beach sea games · team won 39% of 49 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Shipyard by 2:06

  1. Take mex and wind while queuing the shipyard early.
  2. Get the shipyard up before 3:24 to start naval production.
  3. Add Argonaut and Iapetus to back up the early push.
  4. Push out a Syracusia fast to contest or scout enemy sea.
  5. Transition to T2 with an advanced mex as navy expands.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 49 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 Shipyard

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor3Mex
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    • Wind Turbine2Windfor allies
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Order
    1. ShipyardShipyard after 3 mex, 3 wind, 1 energy storagedone ~1:57, middle half 1:44–2:20

    By 1:41 in all: 3 mex · 3 wind · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 4 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind ×3for Air
    3. Wind
    4. ShipyardShipyarddone 1:44 · typical 1:57
  2. 2

    Shipyard to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Tidal Generator2Tidal
    Builders
    • Construction Ship2 Con ship
    Army
    • Argonaut1 Argonaut
    • Iapetus1 Iapetus
    • Syracusia1 Syracusia

    Some games also: Naval Radar / Sonar Tower (49%) · Hippocampus (47%) · wind (47%) · Stheno (47%) · Legion Drone (47%)

    By 5:00 in all: 7 mex · 4 wind · 2 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 27 steps
    1. Wind ×2
    2. Construction ShipCon ship
    3. IapetusIapetus
    4. Tidal
    5. Mex
    6. Tidal
    7. Construction ShipCon ship
    8. Mex
    9. KeteaSubmarine
    10. Mex
    11. Tidal
    12. HippocampusHippocampus
    13. Tidal
    14. HippocampusHippocampus ×2
    15. Tidal
    16. HippocampusHippocampus
    17. Mex
    18. Mexfor unknown
    19. PharosPharos
    20. HippocampusHippocampus
    21. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    22. HippocampusHippocampus ×2
    23. Mexfor unknown
    24. SthenoStheno
    25. HippocampusHippocampus ×2
    26. PharosPharosfor Suicide front
    27. HippocampusHippocampus
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor2Mex
    Builders
    • Dionysus1 Dionysus
    Army
    • Stheno1 Stheno
    • Legion Drone6 Legion Drone
    • Argonaut2 Argonaut
    • Syracusia2 Syracusia
    • Iapetus1 Iapetus
    Other
    • Naval Radar / Sonar Tower2 Naval Radar / Sonar Tower

    Some games also: Pharos (47%) · wind (43%) · con ship (43%) · wind (35%) · Naval Construction Turret (35%)

    By 10:00 in all: 9 mex · 7 wind · 4 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 17 steps
    1. PharosPharos
    2. HippocampusHippocampus
    3. SyracusiaSyracusiadone 5:51 · typical 4:53
    4. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    5. IapetusIapetus
    6. KeteaSubmarine
    7. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    8. ArgonautArgonaut
    9. Con turret
    10. ArgonautArgonaut
    11. PharosPharos
    12. Construction ShipCon ship
    13. ArgonautArgonaut
    14. Construction ShipCon ship
    15. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    16. BrambleBramble
    17. PharosPharos ×8for Suicide front

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is JesterB's (33 OS, 24/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Wind Turbine3 Wind to Airfirst at 1:56 · in 67% of games

You get

  • Finch1 Finch from Airfirst at 2:01 · in 41% of games
  • Lazarus1 Lazarus from Geofirst at 2:18 · in 39% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot from Geofirst at 2:27 · in 41% of games
  • Legion Construction Bot1 Legion Construction Bot from Geo or Air or Geo seafirst at 2:44 · in 33% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 7:56 · in 76% 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

02.5k5k7.5k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

02.5k5k7.5k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

49 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0039800
2:0093100
3:00156200
4:00246000
5:0036458568
6:004920345230
7:006284875361
8:0076991386860
9:00913817181260
10:001088527731830
11:001289936062541
12:001524842733556
13:001823248624380
14:002023854804892
15:002303263656215
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard beach sea has the weakest win rate here, with own metal lost outpacing enemy metal destroyed by 15:00.

  • + Early Syracusia by 4:43 gives fast sea presence to contest entry.
  • − Team wins only 38% of games, own metal lost (5105) nearly matches enemy destroyed (6441).
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

JesterB

32.5 OS · 24/09/2026

Open source match ↗

12 received units · includes a constructor
5 metal received · 7325 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Shipyard1:57Middle 50%: 1:44–2:20 · n=49
Syracusia4:53Middle 50%: 4:25–5:47 · n=40
Advanced Metal Extractor9:42Middle 50%: 9:05–10:17 · n=35

Played most by

Rysica5games of this buildJesterB4games of this buildNFX_Scurvy4games of this buildAdeus3games of this buildEpicTyrannus3games of this build