Assassin’s Creed III Walkthrough

Optional objective/s:

• Kill less than 15 guards over the course of the mission.
• Escape the ship without entering open conflict.
• Kill the ship’s captain.
• Complete all objectives in one playthrough.

After the cut-scene to introduce the chapter, we’ll be in New York.

Part 1 – Brawl

Follow the alleyway in front and exit into the graveyard in front of the church. Move towards your target and a scene will play.

After the scene, hit the button prompt when it pops up on the screen to free yourself. Now you will have to kill all five of the mercenaries in the immediate area. Return around to the right of the building in front and kill the rest of the marked enemies here.

After another short conversation, make your way to the objective marker and when you reach the docks, hop into the water and swim out to the boat in the harbour.

Part 2 – Infiltrate

Note that one of the optional objectives is to kill less than 15 guards during the mission. After fighting off all the guards at the start of the mission you will have killed 13/15 already (although if you are able to perform a double kill on some of them, the number may be lower). That’s alright though as we’ll only be killing two on the ship.

At the southern end of the ship closest to shore, climb the rope here and climb up. Shimmy around the boat to the right and climb the poles to access a higher set of handholds, shimmy back to the left to the south of the boat. Climb to the top deck here and wait for the guard to look away and then hop up over the railing and to the roof nearby. From here jump to the next roof to the right. Drop down over the side facing the water and shimmy to the window to eavesdrop on the conversation inside.

After the conversation, drop down to the series of wooden supports sticking out from the ship below. Hop along them to the right. When you go around the corner you will see a guard on a platform overlooking above.

Jump into the water below and swim to the right around the back side of the ship until you reach the opposite side. You will see a platform in the water here populated with three guards with stairs leading up to the ship behind it. Wait for the soldier on the stairs to start climbing up to the deck again. Hop out onto the barrels at the end of the floating platform behind the three guards and then jump over to the side of the ship. Quickly shimmy back to the left to the stern of the ship.

When you can go no further to the left, climb the side of the boat up as far as you can but don’t climb onto the deck just yet. Hang off the platform here and wait for the guards to patrol away before climbing up to the platform above. Climb up on top of the building in front and drop down the other side. Take cover behind the crates next to the window to eavesdrop on the next conversation.

Following the conversation, we’ll be able to jump off the boat to safety if you like, however if you do that you will miss the opportunity to try for our next optional objective. We need to kill the Captain. After the conversation, follow the guard walking in front of the cabin to the opposite side of the ship. Assassinate him. Return to the boxes we took cover in whilst eavesdropping the second time.

After a few moments the captain will return up to the deck. Wait for him to walk past and he will go and run over to investigate the dead body. Sneak up on him and assassinate him. Jump into the water to finish the mission.