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Hey,

I was reading through the focus fire rules and it talks about targeting units with different cover saves but what if the target would just use his armor save?

ie. There's a squad of 5 marines, 3 are in 5+ cover and 2 are out in the open. Let's say the 2 out in the open contain a special weapon. I open up with some AP5 shots that would grant them their normal armor save, can I still use the foucs fire rule and target the 2 without an cover save even tho they'd all get the same armor save against my shots?

Yes You can.

Focus fire has a very nice picture explaining it all on page 19 of the big rule book, and that takes extra care to state that you have permission to target units out in the open using focus fire. The way this works is fairly simple; when you announce you plan to focus your fire you need to state up to what level of cover save you are intending to ignore. Any unit in cover with a number that is equal or worse then to the value you state are able to be assigned wounds like normal. Therefore, if you state you are firing at 5+ cover saves, this means you are firing at 5+, 6+ and - cover saves as well.

As units that are out in the open get - for their cover save, so they are always capable of being hit with any focus fire declaration.

I've never thought about this usage of it, interesting!