FFD's direct fire from fighters and ships in orbit, not artillery.
I know that, 6 fighters or 1 ship per FFD.
The rules there are a bit different and I reported them as they are. But thanks for clarifying as could have led to confusion and I should have included the info, so I am editing to make it complete for future.
What I think it happened is that Steve changed FFD and not update the original post.
The most important detail is that FFD is not useful for ground based artillery
Mate, I know that and I already corrected and thanked Ice for the details I omissed which actually led me to analyze the rule again for a deeper evaluation.
In saying that I really would like to highlight that no where I said that you need FFD but I was referring only to the support position, but I understood could be misleading if you havent played enough hence my corrections and edit on the support formation.
This bring me to the point that beside the wrong interpretation of my post due to poor reporting on my side, I actually think that the most important part is why it's not working even if said that it should?
So I opened a post/request for Steve to change the original rules post as it is misleading.
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=11895.0