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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 1:01 · 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 · 22 steps
    1. Wind
    2. WheelieWheelie ×5
    3. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle ×2
    4. DecurionDecurion
    5. Wind
    6. BarrageBarrage
    7. Mex
    8. Wind ×2
    9. LanceLance
    10. Mex
    11. DecurionDecurion
    12. Mex
    13. Wind
    14. BarrageBarrage
    15. LanceLance
    16. DecurionDecurion
    17. PharosPharos ×2
    18. BarrageBarrage
    19. LanceLance
    20. DecurionDecurion
    21. BarrageBarrage
    22. LanceLance
  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 · 81 steps
    1. DecurionDecurion
    2. BarrageBarrage
    3. LanceLance
    4. DecurionDecurion
    5. BarrageBarrage
    6. LanceLance
    7. DecurionDecurion
    8. Wind
    9. Mex
    10. Metal storage
    11. BarrageBarrage
    12. Wind
    13. LanceLance
    14. Converter
    15. Wind
    16. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:01 · typical 9:01
    17. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    18. Wind
    19. Converter
    20. Mex
    21. Wind
    22. DecurionDecurion
    23. Wind
    24. Converter
    25. BarrageBarrage
    26. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    27. Wind
    28. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    29. Converter
    30. Wind
    31. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    32. Wind
    33. Con turret
    34. Wind
    35. Converter
    36. Wind
    37. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    38. Legion Bot LabLegion Bot Labdone 10:12
    39. Wind ×2
    40. Converter
    41. Legion Construction BotLegion Construction Bot
    42. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    43. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    44. Legion Construction BotLegion Construction Bot
    45. Wind
    46. Energy storage
    47. Legion Construction BotLegion Construction Bot
    48. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    49. Wind
    50. Legion Construction BotLegion Construction Bot ×2
    51. Energy storage
    52. Wind
    53. Converter
    54. ZagreusZagreus
    55. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    56. ZagreusZagreus ×2
    57. Wind ×2
    58. ZagreusZagreus
    59. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    60. Wind
    61. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    62. Wind
    63. ZagreusZagreus
    64. Legion Construction BotLegion Construction Bot
    65. Wind
    66. Converter
    67. Wind ×2
    68. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    69. Legion Construction BotLegion Construction Bot
    70. Wind
    71. Legion Construction BotLegion Construction Bot
    72. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    73. Wind ×4
    74. Legion Construction BotLegion Construction Bot
    75. Wind ×2
    76. Con turret
    77. Wind
    78. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    79. Wind
    80. Converter
    81. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Hummell's (46 OS, 19/09/2026); 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 · 19/09/2026

Open source match ↗

5 received units · includes a constructor
698 metal received · 66638 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