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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 · 1 step
    1. Legion Vehicle PlantLegion Vehicle Plantdone 0:22 · 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 · 32 steps
    1. WheelieWheelie
    2. Wind
    3. WheelieWheelie ×2
    4. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    5. Wind
    6. Mex ×3
    7. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle ×2
    8. Mex
    9. DecurionDecurion
    10. DecurionDecurionfor Suicide front
    11. Mex ×2
    12. HeliosHelios
    13. Wind
    14. HeliosHelios
    15. Wind
    16. HeliosHeliosfor Suicide front
    17. Wind ×2
    18. HeliosHelios
    19. Wind
    20. Con turret
    21. Wind
    22. HeliosHelios
    23. Wind
    24. HeliosHelios
    25. Wind
    26. Energy storage
    27. HeliosHeliosfor Suicide front
    28. CacophonyCacophony
    29. HeliosHelios
    30. Con turret
    31. HeliosHelios
    32. CacophonyCacophony
  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 · 51 steps
    1. HeliosHeliosfor Suicide front
    2. Con turret
    3. Wind
    4. AmputatorAmputator
    5. HeliosHeliosfor Suicide front
    6. Wind
    7. HeliosHelios
    8. Wind ×2
    9. HeliosHelios
    10. Wind
    11. HeliosHelios
    12. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    13. Wind
    14. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    15. Wind ×6
    16. NyxNyx
    17. Wind
    18. Energy storage
    19. Wind
    20. Energy storage
    21. Con turret ×2
    22. NyxNyx
    23. CacophonyCacophony
    24. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    25. Metal storage
    26. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle ×3
    27. Advanced Vehicle PlantAdvanced Vehicle Plantdone 10:23
    28. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    29. Wind
    30. Con turret
    31. Wind ×5
    32. Con turret
    33. Wind ×4
    34. Advanced Construction VehicleT2 con vehicle
    35. Converter ×4
    36. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×2done 12:04
    37. Advanced Construction VehicleT2 con vehiclefor Suicide front
    38. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex ×3
    39. TritonTritondone 12:58
    40. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    41. TritonTriton
    42. CiceroRadar jammerfor Suicide front
    43. TritonTriton
    44. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    45. TritonTriton
    46. CacophonyCacophony
    47. TritonTriton
    48. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    49. TritonTriton
    50. CacophonyCacophony
    51. Fusion ReactorFusionnot finished by 15:00

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is haaven's (44 OS, 30/08/2026); 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

haaven

44.0 OS · 30/08/2026

Open source match ↗

15 received units · includes a constructor
1019 metal received · 73443 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