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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 · 7 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind
    3. Wind ×2for Air
    4. Wind ×2
    5. Windfor Air
    6. Energy storage
    7. 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 · 22 steps
    1. Construction ShipCon ship ×2
    2. ArgonautArgonaut
    3. Naval Construction Turret
    4. Mex ×2
    5. Tidal
    6. ArgonautArgonaut
    7. Wind
    8. Mex
    9. Wind ×2
    10. Mex
    11. Wind
    12. Mex
    13. Wind
    14. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    15. Wind
    16. KeteaSubmarine
    17. SthenoStheno
    18. Wind
    19. SyracusiaSyracusiadone 5:20 · typical 4:52
    20. Wind
    21. Mex
    22. Mex
  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 · 90 steps
    1. Wind
    2. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    3. DionysusDionysus
    4. Wind
    5. PolybolosPolybolos
    6. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    7. SyracusiaSyracusia
    8. Wind
    9. SthenoStheno
    10. Wind
    11. SthenoStheno ×2
    12. Wind
    13. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    14. ArgonautArgonaut
    15. Tidal
    16. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    17. Wind
    18. Tidal
    19. ArgonautArgonaut
    20. Tidal
    21. Wind
    22. SthenoStheno
    23. Tidal
    24. Wind
    25. SyracusiaSyracusia
    26. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    27. Tidal
    28. SthenoStheno
    29. Wind
    30. Tidal
    31. Wind
    32. SthenoStheno
    33. Tidal
    34. SthenoStheno
    35. Tidal
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:02 · typical 9:39
    37. Con turret
    38. Tidal ×2
    39. SthenoStheno
    40. Tidal
    41. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    42. IapetusIapetus
    43. Tidal
    44. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    45. IapetusIapetus
    46. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    47. Wind
    48. ArgonautArgonaut
    49. Wind ×2
    50. ArgonautArgonaut
    51. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    52. Wind
    53. ArgonautArgonaut
    54. Wind
    55. Naval Construction Turret
    56. ArgonautArgonaut
    57. Naval Construction Turret
    58. Wind ×2
    59. SthenoStheno
    60. Wind
    61. ArgonautArgonaut
    62. SthenoStheno
    63. Wind
    64. SthenoStheno
    65. Wind
    66. ArgonautArgonaut
    67. Wind ×2
    68. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    69. SthenoStheno
    70. SyracusiaSyracusia
    71. Converter ×2
    72. SthenoStheno
    73. Converter
    74. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    75. SyracusiaSyracusia
    76. Converter ×2
    77. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    78. Converter
    79. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    80. SyracusiaSyracusia
    81. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    82. Naval Radar / Sonar TowerNaval Radar / Sonar Tower
    83. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    84. KeteaSubmarine
    85. Con turret
    86. KeteaSubmarine
    87. SthenoStheno
    88. Legion DroneLegion Drone
    89. KeteaSubmarine ×5
    90. Con turret

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is XuunnY's (32 OS, 04/10/2026); 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

XuunnY

32.1 OS · 04/10/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
595 metal received · 25650 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