Area and Beam attacks

[Dyzard]

I remember reading at one point that area and beam attacks worked like this: 

 Lay template down all characters under the template are able to be targeted unless something says otherwise IE stealth.

Attacks happen in order the attacker chooses

Allied models take 1 damage for the attack instead of rolling attack dice against them.

 

And then I swear i saw something the other day that said you can not target your own models with an attack, is this true and you dont take the damage or am i missremembering this. 

If i could just get a quick breakdown of how friendly models are interacted with area and beam attacks that would be great! thanks as always 

[Negoldar]

Allied characters cannot be targeted by allied attacks. Those caught in a beam or area attack suffer one damage but do not suffer any other effects of the attack.