Check out the top 40k tournament army lists for Genestealers, Necrons, and Black Templars from the Eggs & Root Beer RTT, which saw some great factions hit the top.
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Now we’re breaking down the top 40k army lists from the event and calling out the choices that mattered so you can spot meta trends fast and tune your own roster.
The Eggs & Root Beer RTT: Top 8 Warhammer 40k Army Lists
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1st Place: Chris Overstreet, Genestealer Cults Army Lists (GSC)
This Genestealer Cults army list is a Biosanctic Broodsurge build that leans hard into fast board pressure, durable melee bricks, and a bunch of annoying little support pieces that make the whole thing work together. It wants to hit the mid-board early, force awkward trades, and keep piling on pressure until its opponent runs out of clean answers.
Abominants
The three Abominants bully the table with mutated bricks, and two of them clearly exist to turn the big Aberrant units into real problems. They add more punch, more staying power, and make those units feel less like melee threats and more like issues the opponent has to solve immediately.
Patriarch
The Patriarch is the other major pressure character. Paired with the Purestrains, he gives the army a real threat projection tool that can pressure flanks, hit exposed infantry, and force opponents to respect movement lanes they’d rather use for scoring.
Biophagus
The Biophagus is one of those classic Genestealer Cult support pieces that make the list work better than it first appears. He’s not the headline act, but he helps one of the melee trading units hit above its weight and gives the army another way to stack value into the brawling core.
Reductus Saboteurs
Then there are the two Reductus Saboteurs, and these are pure utility gold. They’re not the main damage dealers, but they create nuisance damage, threaten key movement lanes, chip wounds into things they thought were safe, and generally make life miserable for opponents trying to stage behind terrain.
Acolyte Hybrids
The Acolyte Hybrids are doing the work that wins actual 40k games. The small autopistol squad is a cheap trading piece that can screen, sit on a point, clean up damaged units, or get thrown away to force an awkward response.
While the larger Acolyte unit with heavy mining tools is one of the list’s better secondary punch pieces. Finally, the hand flamer Acolytes bring another layer of utility. They’re great for clearing chaff, torching screens, and making sure the expensive melee pieces don’t get bogged down by cheap bodies.
Goliath Truck
The Goliath Truck gives one of the smaller utility or trading units a safer way to get where it needs to be, and that alone makes it worth the slot in a list like this. Whether it’s ferrying flamers into a screening unit, moving a mission piece onto a side objective, or just being one more annoying hull in the way, the Truck keeps the army flexible.
Aberrants
The two ten-strong Aberrant units are the list’s main damage dealers and its main board-control tools rolled into one. These are the bricks that walk into the middle, absorb punishment, and dare the opponent to do something about it. With Abominants backing them up, they become the army’s real identity. They hit hard, they take effort to remove, and they force opponents to commit real resources just to keep them from owning the center of the table.
Achilles Ridgerunners
The Achilles Ridgerunners give the list some needed ranged utility and table control. They’re plinking away at screens, tagging hidden units with indirect pressure, and helping the list interact at range while the real hitters move up.
Hybrid Metamorphs
The Hybrid Metamorphs are another tidy little utility threat. They fit the list well because they can jump into messy fights, clear lighter targets, and add another wave of melee pressure once the bigger units have drawn the heat. They’re also great at being underestimated, which is one of the oldest Genestealer Cult tricks in the book.
Purestrain Genestealers
The two Purestrain Genestealer units, especially the ten-strong squad, give the army speed that the heavier Aberrant core can’t match on its own. These are the units that threaten early board control, punish exposed objective holders, and force opponents to screen properly from the first turn. With the Patriarch in the mix, they become one of the army’s best matchup-swing pieces.
How This Genestealer Cults Army List Wins
This army scores by owning the middle, trading aggressively onto objectives, and forcing the opponent to spend turns reacting instead of scoring cleanly. The Aberrants and Purestrains do the heavy lifting on primary by bullying contested ground, while the Acolytes, Metamorphs, Saboteurs, and Truck handle the thankless mission work around the edges. It’s not a passive scoring list at all, as it wants the table to feel crowded, dangerous, and inconvenient from the opening turns. That’s because once the opponent starts losing units and space at the same time, the points usually follow.
2nd Place: Matthew Price, Necrons Army Lists
How This Necrons Army List Wins
This Necrons build is the kind of list that makes a table feel crowded before the first real engagement can even start.
It stacks three C’tan, backs them with the Silent King, and dares the opponent to figure out which monster needs dealing with first.
Between all that pressure, some sneaky mission play, and just enough ranged punch to keep armor honest, it’s a sharp example of how Necrons can bully the board while still playing smart 40k.
3rd Place: Patrick Barrett, Black Templars Army Lists (Space Marines)
How This Black Templars Army List Wins
If you like Black Templars armies that solve problems by running straight at them with chainswords revving, this one is worth a look.
The whole list is built around owning the middle of the table with big Crusader blobs, then backing that pressure up with nasty melee characters and a Sword Brethren bomb that can flatten the wrong target in a hurry.
It wants to absorb a hit, keep marching, and turn the center into a scrap your opponent can’t win. Add in a Repulsor Executioner for long-range pressure, and you’ve got an army that plays like classic Templars: loud, direct, and mean once it gets stuck in.
Final Thoughts from us on the Eggs & Root Beer RTT Army Lists
The Eggs & Root Beer RTT had a little bit of everything, and the top three tournament lists all got there in very different ways. The Genestealer Cults army list won by turning the table into a traffic jam full of melee threats and mission pieces. While the Necrons army list leaned on raw pressure and durable nightmare units, the Black Templars marched into the middle and made it everybody else’s problem.
That’s a pretty clean snapshot of 40k right now. Pressure still matters, board control still wins games, and the lists that keep scoring even after the first punch are the ones sticking near the top.
If there’s one thing worth stealing from this event, it’s that a strong build does not need fancy tricks nearly as much as it needs a clear job for every unit on the roster. These armies brought that in spades, and the results speak for themselves.
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What do you think of the results from the Eggs & Root Beer RTT for Genestealers, Necrons, and Black Templars army lists?
