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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 · 34 steps
    1. WheelieWheelie ×3
    2. WheelieWheeliefor Pond
    3. WheelieWheelie
    4. Wind
    5. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    6. Wind ×2
    7. DecurionDecurion
    8. BarrageBarrage
    9. LanceLance
    10. WheelieWheelie ×3
    11. WheelieWheeliefor Pond
    12. WheelieWheelie
    13. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    14. BarrageBarrage
    15. DecurionDecurion
    16. Wind
    17. Mex
    18. LanceLance
    19. Mex
    20. Wind
    21. WheelieWheelie ×2for Pond
    22. Wind
    23. WheelieWheeliefor Pond
    24. WheelieWheelie
    25. BarrageBarrage
    26. Mex
    27. DecurionDecurion
    28. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    29. LanceLance
    30. BarrageBarrage
    31. DecurionDecurion
    32. LanceLance
    33. BarrageBarrage
    34. DecurionDecurion
  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 · 71 steps
    1. LanceLance
    2. BarrageBarrage
    3. PharosPharos ×2
    4. DecurionDecurion
    5. PharosPharos
    6. LanceLance
    7. PharosPharos
    8. BarrageBarrage
    9. DecurionDecurion
    10. LanceLance
    11. BarrageBarrage
    12. DecurionDecurion
    13. LanceLance
    14. Mex
    15. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:45
    16. BarrageBarrage
    17. LanceLance
    18. HeliosHelios ×2
    19. Mex
    20. HeliosHelios ×2
    21. BrambleBramble
    22. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    23. HeliosHelios
    24. Mex
    25. HeliosHelios
    26. Mex
    27. HeliosHelios
    28. Wind
    29. HeliosHelios
    30. Wind ×2
    31. HeliosHelios
    32. Wind ×3
    33. HeliosHelios
    34. Wind ×2
    35. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    36. Wind
    37. Mex
    38. Wind
    39. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    40. Wind
    41. Mex
    42. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    43. Legion Construction VehicleLegion Construction Vehicle
    44. Wind ×2
    45. WheelieWheelie ×2
    46. Con turret
    47. WheelieWheelie
    48. Energy storage
    49. WheelieWheelie
    50. Wind
    51. WheelieWheelie ×4
    52. Wind
    53. WheelieWheelie
    54. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    55. WheelieWheelie
    56. ScorpionScorpion
    57. WheelieWheelie
    58. Wind
    59. WheelieWheelie
    60. Con turret
    61. WheelieWheelie
    62. Wind
    63. WheelieWheelie ×2
    64. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    65. WheelieWheelie ×2
    66. Wind
    67. ScorpionScorpion
    68. WheelieWheelie
    69. Wind ×2
    70. WheelieWheelie ×5
    71. Wind

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Hummell's (46 OS, 07/09/2026); 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 · 07/09/2026

Open source match ↗

6 received units · includes a constructor
160 metal received · 38217 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