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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 · 2 steps
    1. Mex ×2
    2. Legion Vehicle PlantLegion Vehicle Plantdone 0:38 · 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 · 34 steps
    1. WheelieWheelie
    2. Mex
    3. WheelieWheelie
    4. Wind
    5. WheelieWheelie
    6. Wind
    7. WheelieWheelie ×2
    8. AlarisAlaris
    9. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle ×2
    10. AlarisAlaris
    11. BarrageBarrage ×2
    12. Mex
    13. Wind
    14. Mex
    15. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    16. Mex
    17. PharosPharos ×2
    18. LanceLance
    19. Wind
    20. PharosPharos
    21. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    22. LanceLance
    23. Wind
    24. LanceLance
    25. Wind
    26. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    27. LanceLance
    28. Wind
    29. Con turret
    30. LanceLance
    31. Wind
    32. LanceLance
    33. Mex
    34. Wind
  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 · 95 steps
    1. LanceLance
    2. Wind ×2
    3. LanceLance
    4. Con turret
    5. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    6. LanceLance
    7. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    8. Wind
    9. LanceLance
    10. Wind
    11. LanceLance
    12. Wind
    13. LanceLance
    14. Wind ×2
    15. LanceLance
    16. Wind
    17. Mex
    18. Wind
    19. LanceLance
    20. Wind
    21. LanceLance
    22. Wind ×2
    23. LanceLance
    24. Wind
    25. PharosPharos
    26. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    27. Energy storage
    28. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:30 · typical 9:01
    29. PharosPharos
    30. Wind
    31. PharosPharos
    32. LanceLance
    33. PharosPharos
    34. Wind
    35. Mex
    36. Wind
    37. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    38. Wind ×2
    39. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    40. Wind
    41. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    42. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    43. Wind
    44. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    45. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    46. Wind
    47. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    48. Wind ×7
    49. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    50. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    51. Wind ×3
    52. Energy storage
    53. Wind ×2
    54. Con turret
    55. Wind ×4
    56. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 13:10
    57. Wind ×3
    58. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    59. Wind ×4
    60. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    61. Wind
    62. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    63. Wind
    64. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    65. Wind
    66. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2
    67. Wind ×4
    68. CacophonyCacophony
    69. Wind ×2
    70. Converter
    71. Con turret
    72. Wind ×2
    73. WheelieWheelie
    74. Wind
    75. WheelieWheelie ×3
    76. Wind
    77. WheelieWheelie
    78. Converter
    79. WheelieWheelie ×2
    80. RattlesnakeRattlesnake
    81. Wind
    82. WheelieWheelie ×3
    83. Wind
    84. WheelieWheelie
    85. RattlesnakeRattlesnake
    86. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    87. WheelieWheelie
    88. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    89. WheelieWheelie ×5
    90. Converter
    91. WheelieWheelie ×2
    92. Wind
    93. WheelieWheelie ×8
    94. Wind
    95. WheelieWheelie ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Tregan's (38 OS, 11/09/2026); 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

Tregan

37.6 OS · 11/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
131 metal received · 19889 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