Side Relations

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Arma 3
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

Sides friendship

Helper function: BIS_fnc_sideIsFriendly

↓ is friendly to → east west resistance civilian sideAmbientLife sideUnknown sideEnemy sideFriendly sideEmpty sideLogic
east Checked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked
west Unchecked Checked Checked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked
resistance Unchecked Checked Checked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked
civilian Unchecked Checked Checked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked
sideAmbientLife Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked
sideUnknown Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked
sideEnemy Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked
sideFriendly Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked
sideEmpty Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked
sideLogic Checked Checked Checked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked

Sides enmity

Helper function: BIS_fnc_sideIsEnemy

↓ is enemy to → east west resistance civilian sideAmbientLife sideUnknown sideEnemy sideFriendly sideEmpty sideLogic
east Unchecked Checked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked
west Checked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked
resistance Checked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked
civilian Checked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked
sideAmbientLife Checked Checked Checked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked
sideUnknown Checked Checked Checked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked
sideEnemy Checked Checked Checked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked
sideFriendly Checked Checked Checked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked
sideEmpty Checked Checked Checked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked
sideLogic Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked Checked Unchecked Unchecked Unchecked


Change relations

  • 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];

One way hostility

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

Two way hostility with civilians

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

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

Set in the editor

  1. Group your civilians with an east leader
  2. Delete the east leader on mission load:
  3. On mission start, the east leader will not be here but the civilians will be on the east side.


Code used to generate the tables:

private _func = BIS_fnc_sideIsFriendly; private _sidesAsString = ["east", "west", "resistance", "civilian", "sideAmbientLife", "sideUnknown", "sideEnemy", "sideFriendly", "sideEmpty", "sideLogic"]; private _sideResults = []; { private _sideAsString = _x; private _side = call compile _sideAsString; _sideResults pushBack ([_sideAsString] + (_sidesAsString apply { [_side, call compile _x] call _func })); } forEach _sidesAsString; private _result = "{{| class=""wikitable"" style=""text-align: center""\n|-\n"; { _result = _result + "! [[" + _x +"]]\n"; } forEach _sidesAsString; { private _results = _x; { if (_x isEqualType true) then { if (_x) then { _result = _result + "| {{Icon|checked}}\n"; } else { _result = _result + "| {{Icon|unchecked}}\n"; } } else { _result = _result + ("| [[" + _x + "]]\n"); } } forEach _results; _result = _result + "|-\n"; } forEach _sideResults; _result = _result + "|}"; _result;

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