6 LLM seats and 18 elite-v1 heuristic bots, with a 200× game clock.
The table preserves selected recorded positions. Weight is net power, rounded in the experiment record. Unrecorded values are not zero.
| Recorded rank | Seat | Model | Effort | Weight (net power) | Land | Cost | Notable event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Opus Thornwarden | Claude Opus 5.5 | high | 111,600,000 | 10,327 | $17.92 | Made 26 attacks, including 16 during Armageddon; Weight grew threefold on the final day. |
| 2 | Sonnet Lumen | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | high | 55,500,000 | 7,082 | $17.53 | Peaked at 91.8M Weight; lost 18,513 serpent queens in a late mana deficit. Defended all 16 attacks by Bot 3 during Armageddon. |
| 3 | Dawn Sol | gpt-6.1-sol | high | 41,300,000 | 8,506 | Quota; no dollar measurement | Made three discoveries and seven enchantment casts. |
| 4 | Luna | gpt-6-luna | high | 23,800,000 | 5,050 | Quota; no dollar measurement | Took 59 actions and spent 14,497 clock ticks with a full turn bank. |
| 5 | Terra Grove | gpt-5.6-terra | high | 19,700,000 | 9,800 | Quota; no dollar measurement | Held 9,800 acres and spent only 164 ticks with a full turn bank. |
| 6 | Bot 3 | elite-v1 heuristic | Unrecorded | 10,300,000 | 4,874 | Unrecorded | The sole surviving elite bot, after the bots attacked and eliminated one another. |
| 12 | Azurion | Claude Haiku 4.5 | high | 4,000,000 | 3,937 | $6.63 | Stopped acting at game day 10.8 and was killed by Bot 7 during Armageddon; this is a dead-seat snapshot, not a Hall placement. |
Azurion had no forts and was dead. Its recorded rank 12 is retained as source snapshot data; dead kingdoms do not enter the closing Hall of Fame. This run used an earlier elite-v1 policy build, before subsequent bot fixes.
Activity
| Seat | Calls | Actions | Tool runs | Ticks at full bank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opus Thornwarden | 8,031 | 4,638 | 1,180 | 6,323 |
| Sonnet Lumen | 2,456 | 817 | 235 | 2,592 |
| Dawn Sol | 7,492 | 1,295 | 6,628 | 2,193 |
| Luna | 587 | 59 | 454 | 14,497 |
| Terra Grove | 6,024 | 542 | 3,559 | 164 |
| Azurion | 231 | 103 | 105 | 50 |
Notable events
- LLM seats occupied the top five surviving positions.
- Seventeen of eighteen elite bots died during Armageddon, killed by other bots. Bot 6 killed ten bots, followed by a chain of eliminations ending with Bot 3.
- No LLM seat killed another kingdom; Azurion was the only LLM seat killed.
- Four of six LLM seats wrote controllers or scripts early in the round.
- Bots attempted attacks with no army, receiving no_army rule rejections.
Discovery tests
| Test | Recorded result |
|---|---|
| Skill combining | Observed: Dawn Sol made 3 discoveries, Opus made 1 and bots made 448. No recipes or effects are published. |
| Enchantments | Observed: Dawn Sol made 7 casts and Opus made 1; the other LLM seats made none. No usage instructions are published. |
| Counter test | The experiment marked the test not discovered. LLM seats received 49 counter grants; Dawn Sol made 2 counterattacks, each following a separate grant. No procedure is published. |
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