Necrons dominate 10th-edition metagame as multiple factions still win events

Necrons kept their grip on the top of the 10th-edition meta, posting 15 percent of all TiWP results and taking two event wins in the latest Competitive Innovations roundup. That kind of share still marks them as the army everyone has to solve, but it was not a one-faction sweep. Space Marines also claimed two victories, and the rest of the weekend’s winners spread across Chaos Space Marines, Thousand Sons, T’au, Leagues of Votann, Astra Militarum, Death Guard, Sisters of Battle, Imperial Knights, and Genestealer Cults.

That breadth is the key signal. The scene is still top-heavy, and Necrons remain the standout overperformer, but the floor has not dropped out for everyone else. Players are still finding ways to put trophies on the board, which means list design, matchup knowledge, and the right tech choices still matter. For anyone tracking the live tournament circuit, this is not a solved format. It is a crowded one.

The clearest example came from THE SOUTH-COAST 40k SUPER-MAJOR, a 241-player, seven-round Supermajor in England, United Kingdom, held on April 11, 2026. The featured matchup pitted Ross Tully’s T’au Empire Kroot Hunting Pack against Andy Moore’s Space Marines force, Forgefather’s Seekers, and the whole plan revolved around early board control. Tully’s aim was to use Kroot infiltration to block scout and infiltrate moves, then go first and trap the Marines in what Goonhammer described as “Kroot jail.”

That list tech matters because nearly everything in the Kroot Hunting Pack has Scouts 7 inches, which gives it the kind of early pressure that can turn a first turn into a positional stranglehold if the opponent pushes forward. It is the sort of build that punishes loose deployment and rewards players who think they can out-advance the board on pure speed alone. In a meta where top armies are still trading blows, that kind of niche threat can swing a major result.

The Kroot package also has clear real-world momentum behind it. Warhammer Community described the Kroot Hunting Pack as the first chance to get Codex: T’au Empire in the 2024 Kroot release cycle, with a box that included 20 Kroot Carnivores, three Krootox Rampagers, a Krootox Rider, a Flesh Shaper, and a War Shaper. Another Warhammer Community piece called it “an entire Kroot army in a box,” with 26 new Kroot miniatures.

Games Workshop’s March 4 quarterly balance update helps explain the broader shape of the week. Necrons, especially the C’tan, had already seen a resurgence tied to 500 Worlds updates, while Space Marines received points increases on some of their top-performing units to open up more list diversity. The latest tournament results suggest those changes did widen the field, but not enough to loosen Necrons from the top. Expect more Kroot-style innovations soon, because the metagame is still rewarding armies that can create a nasty first turn and force the opponent to play from behind.