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

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Hummell's (45 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

Hummell

45.1 OS · 11/09/2026

Open source match ↗

10 received units · includes a constructor
159 metal received · 9504 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