Breakable Focus Armor useless after being pentrated?

[Moonblade]

Steve,

 

I was GMing a game recently where the players were battling some Viper agents in typical BDU armor. When one was injured with a killing attack, a player (a GM in his own campaign) said that because the armor was defined as a Breakable (-0 disad) Focuse that if it's penetrated it loses one power (its only one: the defense) and that it's now useless.

 

Is that how it works? I thought you had to target a focus to damage its powers.

 

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

[Steve Long]

Re: Breakable Focus Armor useless after being pentrated?

 

It could work that way, but typically most GMs do require that the Focus be specifically targeted, or something of the sort. It's a topic that I need to delve into in greater detail in The Ultimate Gadgeteer or some other appropriate book; it's never really been covered in detail.