Fleet Missions

Late in Sequence 03, you unlock Fleet Missions. They’re started in your ship’s captain’s cabin or in forts and headquarters that you’ve taken over. Approach the map that is marked in these areas and use them to go into the Fleet Mission menu.

During these, Shay sends the ships that he’s captured out to earn money, collect rare items, and help the British win the war on the seas. You establish a fleet by boarding other vessels and choosing to “Add Them to Your Fleet” after you win the battle. At first, you can only have a few of these in your fleet, but grabbing more gives you the option to expand your docks. This costs more and more money as you get additional ships, but the cost of expanding your docks is reasonable, rather than something you have to save up money for.

Having a larger fleet allows you to send more ships on missions simultaneously. Although you can only expand your number of missions (and thus, trade routes) by completing the most advanced mission available, you’re still able to deploy ships along existing unlocked routes to get bonus cash and resources.

There are several types of cargo that your ships can carry: food, arms, troops, medical supplies, and spies. You sometimes gain these from working on your trade routes, but other times you have to gather a specific amount ahead of time and deliver them to your destination. All of this is shown in the Fleet Mission screen. If you are lacking on any resources, go through your trade routes and see which ones provide the resources that you need. Have your spare ships working constantly on these easy routes to keep your stockpile of goods as high aspossible.

Once you’ve directed a ship to start a mission, a timer starts before you find out if a fleet mission has been successful. Go ahead and leave the Fleet Mission screen while the timer counts down; it’ll keep going and let you continue with your own business.

If you don’t have a ship that is strong enough to succeed in the mission, go after the trade routes in that area and fight smaller battles to clear away the enemies. This raises the chance of success dramatically and is very useful when you don’t have heavier ships (like men-o’-wars) to power through the missions.

Smaller, faster vessels have shorter timers. It’s usually worthwhile to send the smallest ship that has enough cargo space to get the job done. Use your heavier vessels for clearing the way, and send your smaller ships to get the mission done quickly and efficiently.

All Fleet Missions can be replayed

for additional cash. The amounts aren’t very high once you’re in the late game, but earlier on they’re a solid way to give yourself more income. Send multiple ships at once to clear out multiple missions that have already been unlocked. You won’t get new achievements or challenges for doing this (it’s all about the money).

If you encounter a trade route that is too tough to take out with the ships you have at your disposal, just back out. Every time you go into the Trade Route screen, the battle is randomized. A fight against three men-o’-wars might become two brigs and a frigate the next time you come in.

Abstergo Challenges

These challenges are an in-game achievement system. They track various activities that you do both in and out of battle, and they’ll reward you with special cheat abilities. The cheats can’t be used to make new progress, but they’re a fun option when you’d like to goof around.

There are 70 challenges in all, and you get a reward for every five that you complete. These are available from the beginning of the game, so try them whenever you’re interested.

Cheat Rewards

Lone Wolf

Synchronize five Viewpoints

Perform 10 assassinations

Perform 10 air assassinations

Kill 10 enemies from hiding places

Complete three Assassin interceptions

Climb for a total of 500 meters

Perform five double assassinations

Perform 10 escapes from open conflict by using blending or hiding

Dive into water from a height of 45 meters

Hang 5 enemies using Rope Darts

Have 10 enemies killed by another berserk enemy

Complete all Assassin Interceptions

Privateer

Purchase 3 boat upgrades

Sink a ship using the Puckle gun

Capture 3 ships

Plunder 6 warehouses

Capture 3 forts

Sink a ship by ramming it

Unlock 5 taverns

Own 5 different figureheads

Defeat 3 man-o’-war vessels

Plunder 3 warehouses without triggering an alarm bell

Complete 2 legendary battles

Sail a total distance of 120 nautical miles

Scout

Collect 10 Animus Fragments

Collect a Templar Map

Collect a piece of the Viking Armour

Collect 50 Animus Fragments

Visit 15 different locations

Collect all Templar Maps

Collect all pieces of the Viking Armour

Collect all 200 Animus Fragments

Synchronize all Viewpoints

Find all Cave Paintings

Trapper

Skin 5 animals

Kill a Canadian lynx with the hidden blade

Harpoon a sea animal

Pet 5 dogs

Skin 5 animals

Harpoon and kill 5 sea animals

Craft 5 hero upgrades

Kill a black wolf

Craft all hero upgrades

Skin each type of animal

Harpoon and kill each type of sea animal

Warrior

Kill 3 enemies with a grenade

Achieve a 3-enemy kill streak

Kill 5 stalkers

Kill 5 enemies with headshots

Kill 5 enemies affected by a Smoke Bomb within 10 seconds

Achieve a 5-enemy kill streak

Use every type of weapon to kill enemies

Kill 8 guards with grenades

Kill 30 enemies with headshots

Achieve a 7-enemy kill streak

Disarm and kill 3 agile guards with their own weapons

Financier

Pickpocket 200 pounds

Loot 10 bodies

Possess 5,000 pounds

Renovate a building

Free a trade route in the naval campaign

Complete all trading missions in the naval campaign

Renovate 5 buildings

Spend 70,000 pounds

Renovate all buildings

Possess 150,000 pounds

Unlock all destinations in the naval campaign

Performance

Get 25% of total synchronization

Get 50% of total synchronization

Get 100% of total synchronization