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Found this Formation in an Old WD, and it seems good, but i wanted to know what other thought of it and wether it would be good or not

Doesn't seem too bad of a formation. I guess a more modern version would swap the designated Trygon Alpha for a Trygon Prime. Doesn't fix that Trygons are overcosted but certainly gives them a nice boost.

The 4+ Invuln makes this quite useable I think. It's super costly, but is probably better than the majority of available Tyranid formations.

I don't think you can use Apocalypse formations in the standard 40k.

 godardc wrote:
I don't think you can use Apocalypse formations in the standard 40k.

No, its for Apocalypse

Seems passable. It turns some weak units into usable ones.

That's the plastic trygon kit pictured in the formation, rather than the old resin forgeworld trygon. Which is interesting as the trygon prime bits and rules came out with that kit.
I guess they just didn't think of primes when coming up with the 'alpha trygon' idea.

The formation looks interesting. Although for the bio-electric tempest, you normally resolve your shooting one unit at a time. So does only the third trygon to fire at a target get the bonus? Or do you just declare before firing any of them that they will fire as a group, and resolve them all at the same time. That's how I'd play it, but I could see people arguing about it.

Arson Fire wrote:
That's the plastic trygon kit pictured in the formation, rather than the old resin forgeworld trygon. Which is interesting as the trygon prime bits and rules came out with that kit.
I guess they just didn't think of primes when coming up with the 'alpha trygon' idea.

The formation looks interesting. Although for the bio-electric tempest, you normally resolve your shooting one unit at a time. So does only the third trygon to fire at a target get the bonus? Or do you just declare before firing any of them that they will fire as a group, and resolve them all at the same time. That's how I'd play it, but I could see people arguing about it.

I would resolve it as if all were shooting at the same time, and only if all were in range (and LoS)