So is this penetrating or not? I've been playing it as though it isn't.

Not without armor piercing it isn't.

If it doesn't say it is then it isn't.

Just a technicality, but AP doesn't make it penetrating, either.

......I thought it did. When was that clarified not to?

It wouldn't wouldn't it ... same reasoning that it makes Poison penetrating?

AP doesnt make any damage penetrating, it just doesnt allow the damage dealt to be reduced below 1. Penetrating actually cuts straight thro Inv, Imp and Toughness.

....OH!!!! I get it. Harpua wasn't saying that AP wouldn't work with it.... just that it's not called "Penetrating".
It works on it just fine (as the 1 damage dealt can't be reduced), but it's not Penetrating. Got it. LOL!! Harpua was just using his special power "Clear as Mud"

Yeah, my bad, I made a slight semantics error.

MSoE is not naturally penetrating like EW or "penetrating" like AP, but it is pretty darn cool! Played a little cluster of Intergang Agents and Medics led into battle by Rookie Knockout as part of a high point game... got lucky with the rolls. It was great fun. Probably would have been better served by making them a little rolling pack of Outwitters, but this was more fun.

That's what kills me about MSoE -- it seems to be a lot more useful in swarms, but the Supes Enemy TA mostly shows up on figures that are 150+. Heck, Mister Mind and Knockout are the only Restricted legal ones below 100. I'd have preferred if MSoE gave some kind of power more suited to bricks -- Outwit protection a la "the Society" or somesuch.

Yeah, sorry if that wasn't clear. I did mean just the semantic part. Otherwise, though, they are compatible. (It could make a difference, though he only example coming to mind is LMD.)

That's okay. We won't hold it against you for too long