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Assassin's Creed 3 Walkthrough

By Matthew Rorie

Our guide for Assassin's Creed III will prepare you for dismantling the Red Coats' forces, detailing each sequence and optional objective along the way.

SEQUENCE SIX

Connor, now a man and wearing the Assassin’s white robes, is finally ready to start defending his people’s land and working against the Templars. There are many new tasks and side missions available to you. Here are a few of them:

  • There’s a Homestead Mission to the southeast of the manor. This will introduce you to Myriam and let you practice a bit with the new rope dart weapon. Completing Homestead Missions will unlock new crafters for your homestead, as well as level them up and allow them to create better items, including new weapons and pouches. They’re entirely optional, but generally they’re easy enough to complete.

  • Achilles will ask you to help compile the Encyclopedia of the Common Man by examining people (aiming at them with the left trigger) around the homestead.

  • Naval missions are available at your ship, as well as a ship upgrade interface in the book next to the captain. It’s unlikely you’ll be able to afford any of the upgrades yet, though.

  • Peg Leg has rumors of a great treasure left by Captain Kidd, but he wants you to find trinkets for him before he gives them up. These are marked on the map with goblet icons. You can turn one in to unlock a naval mission, but you’ll need to find many more to unlock the rest of the missions. You can buy a map to reveal their locations at a general store.

  • You can use the Ledger in the manorhouse to access your crafting capabilities, but you won’t be able to craft many items…yet.

  • The Frontiersman challenges are available at a Frontiersman camp in the Frontier section of the map. They’ll also give you some quick quests to perform.

In other words, it’s a good time to explore the world a bit and perhaps flesh out your homestead by recruiting new inhabitants from Boston and the Frontier. You still won’t be able to craft much, but you’ll be able to use your woodworker to make new Land Convoys and send them off with Connor’s hunting materials to Boston for some hefty profits. Or, you can just resume the main quest. Up to you!

6.1: On Johnson’s Trail

Optional Objectives:

  • Stay below notoriety level 2.
  • Limit firearm use to five shots or lower.
  • Use three powder kegs to destroy smuggled cargo.

The first little skirmish here will unlock Liberation Missions for Connor, the first form of which are scattered tax collectors that you can dispatch. Ignore them for the moment.

Look for these powder kegs, place them near the tea, then shoot them.

You’re tasked here with destroying three stacks of illicit tea in the harbor. Your optional objectives are to use powder kegs to do so and limiting the amount of times you fire a weapon. Neither objective is particularly difficult. One of the tea stacks is practically unguarded, so you can simply drop a nearby keg at its feet and shoot it to destroy it. The other two might be a bit more difficult to get near with the guards afoot; you can either kill them, or run past them, drop the keg, then move far enough away to lose their interest before returning to shoot the powder and destroy the stacks.

With that done, you’ll need to kill a few tax collector groups or kill smugglers in order to free the district from Templar control. Try to kill collectors while guard patrols are out of the area; a large fight will be more likely to raise your notoriety. Rip down posters between fights to return yourself to incognito, and you shouldn’t have a problem finishing the mission off.

74 comments
get2_kr0nk
get2_kr0nk

central boston chest i have the maps but for some reason it does not show where the last one is help me pleaseeeee...

depman1972
depman1972

@get2_kr0nk I found it towards the end of the game in one of the taverns in boston, I wondered the same thing as you, but it is there, it just shows up on mini map I think during sequence 12 :)

light-grenades
light-grenades

The boss of bosses returns! Albeit only for a fleeting moment.

Johannes1944
Johannes1944

how does one shorten the under deck sword fight with Mills

davidt1408
davidt1408

After you beat Assassins Creed 3 can you start over with all your upgrades and weapons?

Ground-Hugger
Ground-Hugger

OK I got this for Christmas and have just started the game I'm in the theater and I use Eagle Eye to spot my target and nothing happens! Am I supposed to do anything else? Push a button or something?

cashier68
cashier68

how do you use the guns (what button) please

 

Titan721
Titan721

 @cashier68 Depends on your system. For PS3, it should be Triangle button. For 360, Y

Dozer419
Dozer419

Whats the deal with The Encyclopedia Of Man ive got one of each how do i get three of each

musicallie44
musicallie44

I'm still having trouble with snitches.  I used the smoke bombs - but there is still only one snitch present.  There are two during the alley running scene.  But only one during the fight scene.

Is this a specific PC Version bug?  Is anyone using a console having the same problem?

musicallie44
musicallie44

I looked at several YouTube videos - but they all failed the snitch requirement despite having "Full Synch" in their video title. *rolls eyes*

I've reported the bug to Ubisoft's main site.  Hopefully the next patch will see this resolved.

 

Still - this is a wonderful walk-through.  I didn't even think to use smoke bombs at first.

cookecity
cookecity

how do you get past the indian hunter feather stage?

The_GooBear
The_GooBear

Found out the hard way that you don't have to eliminate all of the guards on the ship w/ the 2 officers. The optional objectives are granted once the 2 ships are blown, not once the flag's up. Kill the 2 officers w/ ledge grabs (unarmed seems quieter but maybe it's just in my head) and the 2 nearest the kegs w/ the hidden blade (slow walk, tap the crap outta X and bail. Double assassinations seem to get you caught too quickly). The ship w/ the grenadier is a different story but I found it easy to kill the 3 lone guards from a ledge then hidden blade the couple at the bow. It's funny when you place the flag on the grenadier's ship. You'll be atop the other during the cutscene.

JohnC2211
JohnC2211

How are you supposed to do the Homestead missions for sequence 8?  It's all one long mission.  

saudgamermalik
saudgamermalik

can we play the game after ending it ???

Titan721
Titan721

 @saudgamermalik Yes, there are two missions you can do to wrap the story up concerning Conner's tribe and what happens to the British.

Ronin893
Ronin893

For the second ship all you have to do is take out the patroling guard and the you can just run up and set the charge.  You just have to be aware of the guard thats alone at the end. I just tried it after failing to do it the other way several times. I just tried it as a joke and it worked.

sman81
sman81

I saw on one of the recent post about my question and I've done a lot of liberation missions I've got on person about 

90% on my side but now I can't find him or any body else's missions what do I do to finish them.

 

Titan721
Titan721

 @sman81  Keep running around and getting his/her three goals. Even if you do all the viewpoints, some portions of the map will still be hidden. Which I'll be quite honest, is annoying as hell because stuff like this. I went through the story with only 4 recruits because of this same reason and after going back and running around some more, found and completed the goals to get the other 2.

sman81
sman81

does anybody know how to get more assassin's on your crew besides the bartender in this version since its not like any of the other assassin's creed games?

saudgamermalik
saudgamermalik

from where we get smoke bombs?????????????????\

Titan721
Titan721

 @saudgamermalik General Stores under Consumables. or if you found the recipe and have the right items and people, you can make them.

saudgamermalik
saudgamermalik

is this the last mission of the game???

i have 2 dvds of this game n i am still on first if the the games ends on first what dvd 2 contains??

 

AlphaProWolf
AlphaProWolf

 @saudgamermalik If your playing the Xbox version the 2nd disc is the multiplayer. The first disc is only the singleplayer.

dromeo91787
dromeo91787

having trouble witht the first blend mission they dont talk they just stand there when i blend wth  me too they dont say anything nothing happens when i blend wth  anyone know what im suppose to do 

SteelPenguin90
SteelPenguin90

Can't recruit all the assassins.. Boston North and NY North, the lass outside a house and the dark dude by the bar. Yeh, I can't recruit either of them and I think it's a bug, because I've done 3/3/3 (if that makes sense) missions for both of them and they just stand there unresponsive and are not prompting the final recruitment mission. Am I missing something? If anyone has the answer to this I'll......pray for you or something

Tobajas
Tobajas

 @SteelPenguin90 As Gianna earlie wrote your sure that you finished all the missions? If not check the missions info either the side missions entry or the animus to see if your really finished. I did'nt know that there was three missions in NY so I at first thought they were bugged since they did'nt show up on the map then I spotted one. Also when the Npcs dont respond to interaction which seem to happen alot. I have to either restart the game or a spot earlier like a replaying a mission before the error. If that dont work I dont know how to help you I do know that when all the NY North missions are done she stop leaning on the house and moves a bit away from there to just stand around. Also not sure who the black dude your talking about is since all the recruits are white. Pretty sure though that all the recruits who were in a bar had a cut scene starting the second I entered the bar when all the missions for it was done

SteelPenguin90
SteelPenguin90

 @Tobajas Sorry not a black dude, a dude in black, he's wearing black clothes and a hat on his back. It does say the district is liberated on the map, so I thought it might be the forts, so I dominated them, collected all the chests and paper, saved the starving children, killed the debt collectors, and was it protect farmers? Literally wiped the district clean. I think I might have to restart the sequence :- / 

SteelPenguin90
SteelPenguin90

 @Tobajas focusing on the NY one, I'm trying to get that done which is why I was talking about that one ^^ lol

GianniBR
GianniBR

 @SteelPenguin90 Well, usually there are liberation missions that DON'T appear in the map so you need to find them wandering random. Really, I've passed through this =/

SteelPenguin90
SteelPenguin90

 @GianniBR No, that's not what I mean. I have looked around the streets, I have found the liberation missions, I have done the liberation missions, and nothing happens. Really, I'm not an idiot "/

SteelPenguin90
SteelPenguin90

 @prime091474  @GianniBR @Tobajas Sorted! I don't know why but after I talked to a man about his family back home in England, I re-entered and then the cutscene triggered and I unlocked him. In NY North I did one of the protect the farmer missions, which I found by "colouring in" the map by exploring, although before I did that mission it did say 3/3 on the animus, and still said 3/3 afterwards but let me continue. After that I decided to finish the game, and I did. Wow.

prime091474
prime091474

 @SteelPenguin90  @GianniBR you should check the log in the menu if you still have pending missions you haven't finished... I had the same problem but the female assassin will eventually appear in the map once you've completed all the northern NY missions

prime091474
prime091474

 @SteelPenguin90  @GianniBR you have to search the whole area, there aren't any viewpoints that can cover the entire map so you have to go look for those liberation actions

SteelPenguin90
SteelPenguin90

 @GianniBR Thanks anyway :) Sorry, been a bit arsey today dno what's wrong with me. Still not found out how though

GianniBR
GianniBR

 @SteelPenguin90 Oh, well, it happened to me once, thought it may have been the same to you. But ok, I've tried to help.

Hitman9
Hitman9

how can I recruit more assassins? A whole game I had one assassin in my guild.

Tobajas
Tobajas

 @Hitman9 You have to do liberation missions for the different districts in the two towns then when the missions are finished for a district you get a district liberation mission which when finished grants you a new assassin and a new assassin call skill.

EzioTheDovahkin
EzioTheDovahkin

i'm just sad bec they ended revelations on a hotspot

 

slipknotmaggot1
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if anyone is wondering what to do for recruiting assassins, its a lot different then Rev. or Brotherhood. You need to find the Liberation missions. there are usually 3 different tasks for several different people. EX: a doctor trying to fix the smallpox epidemic needs you to rescue 3 people (usually lying down some where) and bring them to him, kill 3 rabid dogs, and burn 3 piles of smallpox infested blankets. after you do all that you go back to him and talk to him, to then protect him from an ambush. after completing that, he then joins your side as your apprentice.  so keep looking for those liberation mission symbols and the more you do,  the more guys will join you. they made it much more personal for the recruits this time around for some reason, instead of just saving them and have them owe you their life. but there you go. also with almost every guy you add, there is a perk added to your recruit skills. whether it be starting a riot or having them disguise themselves. its definitely worth doing several missions to have more then one assassin recruit with you. 

Baroni88
Baroni88

 @slipknotmaggot1 are these areas just not marked on the map because I'll find a liberation mission but no objectives are marked?....

slipknotmaggot1
slipknotmaggot1

 @Baroni88 when you look on your map and see the free masons symbol, that is where you need to go to start  the mission. the objectives won't show up until you get right up to what you need to do. EX: in one case you need to stop a firing squad from killing innocent people. as you are walking up to them they will all highlight  a red dot above them making them a special kill objective for you. kill the 4 or 5 guys and then the top left of the screen will show that you have completed 1/3. not every liberation mission is the same though, like i said, there are 3 missions of the same objective, but several different objections for the recruit. most of them aren't to hard to figure out. as soon as you get to the marker, look for guys with the red dot above their heads and kill them.. sometimes the dot will be yellow, and that just means interrogate. they can't die, so don't worry about killing them. but you can only interrogate them once you have killed all the other redcoats around you. hope that helps a little. 

 

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