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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 (80%)

#naval #eco · 46 distinct matches · 24 players · 74% of Legion Beach sea games · team won 41% of 46 · 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 46 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 1:44–2:22

    By 1:40 in all: 3 mex · 3 wind · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 8 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Windfor Air
    3. Mex
    4. Wind ×3
    5. Energy storage
    6. PharosPharos
    7. Tidal
    8. ShipyardShipyarddone 2:06 · 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
    Other
    • Naval Radar / Sonar Tower1 Naval Radar / Sonar Tower

    Some games also: wind (48%) · Stheno (48%) · Hippocampus (46%) · Legion Drone (46%)

    By 5:00 in all: 8 mex · 4 wind · 2 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 16 steps
    1. Construction ShipCon ship ×2
    2. IapetusIapetus
    3. ArgonautArgonaut
    4. Mex
    5. ArgonautArgonaut
    6. Mex
    7. SyracusiaSyracusiadone 4:43 · typical 4:52
    8. Tidal
    9. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    10. Mex ×2
    11. PharosPharos
    12. SthenoStheno
    13. Mex
    14. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    15. SyracusiaSyracusia
    16. Wind
  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 (46%) · wind (43%) · con ship (43%) · tidal (35%) · wind (33%)

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

    The example game in this phase · 69 steps
    1. SthenoStheno
    2. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    3. Wind
    4. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    5. Wind
    6. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    7. ArgonautArgonaut
    8. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    9. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    10. Wind
    11. ArgonautArgonaut
    12. Wind
    13. DionysusDionysus
    14. Wind
    15. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 8:15 · typical 9:39
    16. DionysusDionysus
    17. Con turret
    18. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    19. IapetusIapetus
    20. SyracusiaSyracusia
    21. ArgonautArgonaut
    22. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    23. ArgonautArgonaut
    24. Wind
    25. ArgonautArgonaut
    26. Wind
    27. Mex
    28. ArgonautArgonaut
    29. Mex
    30. Wind
    31. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    32. Wind ×2
    33. SyracusiaSyracusia
    34. Wind ×5
    35. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    36. Wind ×2
    37. Tidal
    38. SyracusiaSyracusia
    39. Wind ×3
    40. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    41. Tidal
    42. Wind ×11
    43. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    44. Wind
    45. DionysusDionysus
    46. Wind
    47. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    48. Wind
    49. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    50. Wind
    51. ArgonautArgonaut
    52. Wind ×3
    53. ArgonautArgonaut
    54. Wind
    55. Hovercraft PlatformHovercraft Platformdone 13:05
    56. ArgonautArgonaut
    57. Naval Construction Turret
    58. DionysusDionysus
    59. Construction HovercraftCon hovercraft
    60. IapetusIapetus
    61. Construction HovercraftCon hovercraft
    62. PharosPharos
    63. T2 converter
    64. PharosPharos
    65. Metal storage
    66. Advanced Vehicle PlantAdvanced Vehicle Plantnot finished by 15:00
    67. Con turret
    68. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    69. Con turret

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Adeus's (36 OS, 03/10/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Wind Turbine3 Wind to Airfirst at 1:59 · in 67% of games

You get

  • Finch1 Finch from Airfirst at 2:02 · in 41% of games
  • Lazarus1 Lazarus from Geofirst at 2:20 · in 35% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot from Geofirst at 2:28 · in 39% of games
  • Legion Construction Bot1 Legion Construction Bot from Geo or Air or Geo seafirst at 2:44 · in 35% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 7:40 · in 74% 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

46 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0039800
2:0093100
3:00156600
4:00246900
5:0036577968
6:004949353230
7:006312963420
8:0077181389853
9:00911116391178
10:001085927771878
11:001289736332619
12:001518143793601
13:001804250204403
14:002019957574914
15:002288865226315
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

Adeus

35.7 OS · 03/10/2026

Open source match ↗

14 received units · includes a constructor
227 metal received · 24990 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Shipyard1:57Middle 50%: 1:44–2:22 · n=46
Syracusia4:52Middle 50%: 4:23–5:49 · n=38
Advanced Metal Extractor9:39Middle 50%: 9:03–10:09 · n=33

Played most by

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