How do I give a player a weapon on start?

[t1337Dude 10]

I tried adding "unit addmagazine Colt1911; unit addweapon Colt1911" but nothing was added. What's the proper way of doing this? I'm trying to give my starting player a pistol and a magazine.

[bana 0]

Firstly, the quotes are in the wrong place and should be as follows

unit addMagazine "magazinename"; unit addWeapon "weaponname"

The second is your magazine and weapon names are wrong. Should be;

unit addMagazine "7Rnd_45ACP_1911"; unit addWeapon "Colt1911"

A list of weapons and magazine classnames can be found at;

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ArmA_2:_Weapons

[beretNboots 10]

How would you do this if your character has other commands in the intialisation?

For example what I already have is:

SQD1 moveincargo chopper1

and I would like to give the character an M136 + 1X M136 rocket.

Cheers

[Binkowski 26]

 sqd1 moveincargo chopper1; sqd1 addWeapon "M136"; sqd1 addMagazine "M136"; 

That should do it. Note you can replace "sqd1" with "this" (without quotes) if you are using the units init line.