Yup, I would have had to take an intensive fire shot to get the vca around instead..Not quite certain which part refers to the DFF, if it was the berserk question this was fire from outside the hex during defensive fire and not defensive first fire.
Yes, that was what I was referring to and I mis-read it as DFF.
I think you are correct but only in specific cases:
7.4 TARGET DETERMINATION: Except during Defensive First Fire (8.1), all the Personnel-units/unarmored-vehicles/Vulnerable-PRC in the same Location are considered targets of fire that does not have to specify a particular target, with the outcome of such fire affecting all those enemy (or Melee) units in the target Location (except those to which the LOF is blocked, such as being entrenched behind a wall [B9.21], Area Target Type [C3.33], or non-Crest units in a Depression [B20.92]). Although all targets are affected by the results of such fire combat, some may escape harm entirely while others are eliminated, broken, pinned, or affected by Heat of Battle (15.). A MC/PTC result requires all target units to take an independent MC/TC with a separate DR for each unit. A unit/weapon may purposely attack a friendly unit(s) only if specifically allowed to by the rules governing a particular circumstance (e.g., Prisoners, Melee, OBA); see C3.33 for Area Target Type.
As far as I can see, only if the weapon can 'specify a particular target' would other units in the same Location be immune to fire in DF; unless it's the last sentence " A unit/weapon may purposely attack a friendly unit(s) only if specifically allowed to by the rules governing a particular circumstance (e.g., Prisoners, Melee, OBA)" that makes it work. I suspect that is the case.
It would be great if the "particular circumstances" were listed somewhere.
MikeS