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Standard front

Opens with a Legion Vehicle Plant, defends the wider gap by sending early units to the coast before pushing to middle, then adds an Advanced Metal Extractor around 9 minutes and builds up Barrage and Lance into a mixed vehicle army for the…

Usually 3 mex, then lab (63%)

#eco #defence · 19 distinct matches · 7 players · 83% of Legion Front games · team won 68% of 19 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Legion Vehicle Plant by 0:55

  1. Grab starting mex and wind, then rush Legion Vehicle Plant.
  2. Start producing raiding units to defend the wide coastal gap.
  3. Send first units to coast, not middle, to stop leaks.
  4. Group 3-4 units into a line moving up toward mid.
  5. Upgrade a mex to Advanced Metal Extractor as economy transitions.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 19 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 Vehicle Plant

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor3Mex
    • Wind Turbine1Wind
    Order
    1. Legion Vehicle PlantLegion Vehicle Plant after 3 mex, 1 winddone ~0:55, middle half 0:50–0:55

    By 0:36 in all: 3 mex · 1 wind

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind
    3. Legion Vehicle PlantLegion Vehicle Plantdone 0:55 · typical 0:55
  2. 2

    Legion Vehicle Plant to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Wind Turbine7Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret
    • Legion Construction Vehicle2 Legion Construction Vehicle
    Army
    • Pharos2 Pharos
    • Wheelie5 Wheelie
    • Decurion3 Decurion
    • Lance3 Lance
    • Barrage3 Barrage

    Some games also: Wheelie for allies (37%) · Radar Tower (37%)

    By 5:00 in all: 6 mex · 8 wind · 1 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 28 steps
    1. WheelieWheelie
    2. WheelieWheeliefor Pond
    3. WheelieWheelie
    4. WheelieWheelie ×2for Pond
    5. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    6. Wind
    7. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    8. DecurionDecurion
    9. Mex
    10. Wind
    11. Mex
    12. Wind
    13. BarrageBarrage
    14. Wind
    15. LanceLance
    16. Mex
    17. Wind
    18. PharosPharos
    19. Wind
    20. DecurionDecurion
    21. BarrageBarrage
    22. PharosPharos
    23. Con turret
    24. LanceLance
    25. BarrageBarrage
    26. LanceLance
    27. DecurionDecurion
    28. Wind ×2
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor2Mex
    • Wind Turbine17Wind
    • Energy Converter1Converter
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret
    Army
    • Pharos3 Pharos
    • Lance3 Lance
    • Decurion3 Decurion
    • Barrage2 Barrage

    Some games also: Legion Construction Vehicle (47%) · Radar Tower (37%) · metal storage (32%) · Dragon's Teeth (32%) · Helios (32%)

    By 10:00 in all: 8 mex · 25 wind · 1 converter · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 106 steps
    1. BarrageBarrage
    2. Wind ×2
    3. LanceLance
    4. Wind ×2
    5. BarrageBarrage
    6. Wind ×3
    7. LanceLance
    8. Wind
    9. DecurionDecurion
    10. Wind ×2
    11. BarrageBarrage
    12. Wind ×2
    13. LanceLance
    14. DecurionDecurion
    15. Wind
    16. PharosPharos
    17. Wind
    18. BarrageBarrage
    19. Energy storage
    20. Con turret
    21. LanceLance
    22. Con turret
    23. DecurionDecurion
    24. BarrageBarrage
    25. LanceLance
    26. DecurionDecurion
    27. BarrageBarrage
    28. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    29. Wind
    30. Converter
    31. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    32. Wind
    33. Metal storage
    34. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    35. Wind
    36. Converter
    37. Wind
    38. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    39. Wind
    40. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle ×2
    41. Wind
    42. Converter
    43. Wind ×2
    44. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    45. Wind
    46. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    47. Wind ×6
    48. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    49. Wind ×4
    50. Converter
    51. Wind ×9
    52. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:27 · typical 9:01
    53. Wind ×2
    54. Converter ×2
    55. Wind ×5
    56. Converter
    57. Wind ×6
    58. Converter
    59. Wind ×4
    60. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    61. Wind ×3
    62. Converter
    63. Wind
    64. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    65. Converter
    66. Wind ×6
    67. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 13:25
    68. Converter
    69. Wind
    70. Converter
    71. Wind ×7
    72. Converter
    73. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    74. Converter
    75. Wind ×5
    76. Converter ×2
    77. Wind ×5
    78. Converter
    79. Wind
    80. Converter
    81. Wind ×4
    82. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    83. Wind
    84. Converter
    85. Wind ×2
    86. Converter ×2
    87. Wind ×5
    88. Con turret
    89. Wind
    90. Converter
    91. Con turret
    92. Wind
    93. Converter
    94. Con turret
    95. Wind
    96. Con turret
    97. Wind
    98. Con turret
    99. Wind
    100. Advanced Vehicle PlantAdvanced Vehicle Plantdone 14:53
    101. Converter
    102. Wind
    103. Converter
    104. Wind
    105. PrometheusPrometheusnot finished by 15:00
    106. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Hummell's (46 OS, 15/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Wheelie3 Wheelie to Pondfirst at 2:00 · in 37% of games

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:19 · in 32% of games
  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:19 · in 42% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geofirst at 7:21 · in 58% 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

02k4k6k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

19 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0040200
2:009315246
3:0016385269
4:00273223493
5:003791598202
6:0049541378582
7:00614318701259
8:00791236241844
9:00920046272995
10:001110650613141
11:001305656763777
12:001491866124202
13:001700067964213
14:001928667964581
15:002194468235039
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard Front performs strongly, winning 65% of games with the highest destroyed-to-lost ratio of the sampled roles by 10:00.

  • + Enemy metal destroyed hits 5503 by 10:00, well ahead of losses.
  • + T2 con by 7:33 in most games keeps tempo up.
  • − Own metal lost reaches 3459 by 10:00 from constant front-line trades.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

Hummell

46.3 OS · 15/09/2026

Open source match ↗

8 received units · includes a constructor
62 metal received · 16437 energy received

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

Typical milestones

Legion Vehicle Plant0:55Middle 50%: 0:50–0:55 · n=17
Advanced Metal Extractor9:01Middle 50%: 8:06–9:52 · n=12

Played most by

Hummell12games of this buildTregan2games of this buildEpicTyrannus1game of this buildhaaven1game of this buildImmort1game of this build