Warhawk teammates sweep Warhammer World, Necrons and Drukhari lock out top two

A Warhammer World lockout means more than a tournament trophy, and this one came from two Warwickshire Warhawks teammates who never even had to face each other. Oscar Kelly and Patrick Harrison finished first and second at Games Workshop’s flagship venue, both on 436 battle points, turning GW HQ into a live meta snapshot for everyone eyeing the next GT weekend.

Kelly’s Necrons took the crown at 5-0 with a Starshatter Arsenal build built around The Silent King, two C’tan shards, and Doomsday Arks. That is not a cute, gimmicky Necron list. It is the kind of army that wins by making every exchange miserable, then dragging the game into a damage-race control fight where the opponent runs out of answers first. At Warhammer World, that plan clearly worked.

Harrison’s Drukhari matched the result with a 5-0 run of their own, also on 436 battle points, but the route looked completely different. His Spectacle of Spite list leaned hard into speed, jet bikes, and jump-board style pressure, trying to get into melee before enemy shooting could matter. That contrast is the real signal here: the same event rewarded two totally different answers to the same problem. One army soaked the first blow and outlasted the field. The other hit fast enough to make the opponent’s shooting phase feel late.

The bigger detail for competitive players is that the Warhawks pair never had to play each other, so the 1-2 finish was not the byproduct of an internal team matchup. It was a genuine double run through the same field, at the same venue, with both lists coming through undefeated. That makes the result harder to dismiss as bracket luck and easier to read as a real reflection of what is working right now.

Third place went to Jordan Penning’s Ultramarines, who finished 4-1 with a Guilliman-centered list and heavy armor support. Harrison beat Penning by one battle point in the final round, which is why Penning ended up third rather than climbing higher. The podium, then, was not a narrow faction spike; it was a tight set of strong lists that all had to survive a serious bracket.

T’au Empire still showed up in force, with Dan M.K. in fifth and Josh Gates in seventh, but that presence never turned into a podium finish. That matters. It says the field was deep enough that strong T’au results still had to get through Necron resilience, Drukhari tempo, and Ultramarines armor to reach the top. For anyone building for the next GT season weekends, Warhammer World just handed out a blunt message: Necron durability and Drukhari speed both look very real when the guns start firing.