Side Relations

This page deals with all Arma 3 sides, which has more than previous games. See the Side page to see previous titles' available sides.

Also:

Sides Relations

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You can set which sides resistance is friendly/enemy to in the mission editor (click on the Intel box).
Everyone is friendly toward civilians. Civilians AI have a total impunity and can kill any enemy without retaliation (same as captive units).
You can use the setFriend command to set relations between any sides (even east and west).

// will make east friendly to west and vice versa east setFriend [west, 1]; west setFriend [east, 1];

Using the setCaptive command allows you to stop enemy units to fire on the target unit.

_soldier setCaptive true; // _soldier can shoot at enemy but enemy will not return fire

You can re-activate hostility by canceling captive status.

_soldier setCaptive false; // _soldier will be shot at again by enemy units

To make a civilian a potential target to other sides, you can either:

make the civilian a renegade by using the addRating command. This will make him a renegade, meaning an enemy to everyone including other civilians.

_civilian addRating -10000; // this will cause sides to shoot civilian, but not civilian to shoot back - for that, use setFriend

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The renegade rating threshold is below -2000 (e.g -2001, -5000 etc).

make the civilian join an enemy group, e.g east:
private _eastGroup = createGroup east; [_civilian] joinSilent _eastGroup;

Group your civilians with an east leader
Delete the east leader on mission load:
- Put deleteVehicle this in the officer's initialisation field.
- Alternatively, set the probability of presence slider of the officer to zero.
On mission start, the east leader will not be here but the civilians will be on the east side.