El Emisario

Objectives

• Locate El Emisario
• Search El Emisario’s body

LOCATIONS

• Buchon House

REWARDS

• + 350 XP
• + 3 Skill Points
• Handgun: The BFF

Brief

El Emisario’s back is to the wall. El Sueño is out for blood over the loss of production in Ocoro, and El Yayo can no longer protect him. Cell phone calls place El Emisario at his hacienda. If you can extract him he’ll have no choice but to cooperate.

Twisting in the Wind

Finding El Emisario is easy. He’s located in a hilltop compound painted in the most unappealing shades of red there are, but extracting him from his playboy mansion is more difficult due to the involvement of Unidad forces on the premises, as well as the underboss’ clan of henchmen, including armored foes and snipers. Simply driving up and into the base isn’t going to end well.

Buchon House: Recon

TACMAP

This garish hacienda has an expansive courtyard area where Unidad and cartel forces are talking, with formal gardens to the sides and a helipad along with a pool area to the rear. The sides and rear have fewer guards to worry about. The only way into the three-floor mansion itself is via a doorway on the west or east walls, and both are guarded by Unidad soldiers, with more inside and up on the roof. Note the two sniper nests on the rocky outcrops surrounding the compound, and a third sniper on the roof of the mansion itself.

Main Entrance Road (West)

If you’re wanting to cause havoc and drive an armored vehicle into this compound, this is pretty much the only road to do it from. You’re traveling uphill, the compound enemies can easily see you (along with the three snipers dotted around the area), and perhaps only two vehicles, each with two crew members, and a hard assault is recommended. There are much better infiltration points than this.

You can head through the entrance arch and make an immediate left into the north guest cabin to avoid detection, but this would be only recommended if you’re stealthy, and approaching at night. Heading right (southeast) isn’t recommended as the gardens are too exposed.

Northwest Sniper Nest

Though laborious to climb (have a fellow Ghost drop you off on the large rock plateau from a helicopter or drop in using a parachute instead), it’s important to tag the sniper up here. Do this from here, or from C, D, or G. This is a good place to provide supporting fire if you’re planning an assault through the west side main doors.

This location can be moved from, as you head down and over into the formal gardens to the east of the guest house.

North Rock Plateau

This offers a bit more of a vantage point if you’re wanting to snipe at the foes on the main hacienda roof, or the enemies at the pool or along the formal gardens.

Infiltrating down from the rocks, into the formal garden, hiding below the hedge-line, and tagging a couple of cartel thugs en route to the mansion entrance on the east side (by the pool) allows infiltration with minimal enemy interactions. The only foe to watch for is a Unidad soldier at the mansion’s east entrance, and those inside. But you can stealthily reach the mansion, then trigger the rest of your team to attack while you sprint upstairs to the objective.

Low Wall And Deck

After a spot of rock climbing, you can approach the area of the compound with fewest foes guarding it; a low wall near a deck, leading into the northeast corner of the compound and the formal gardens. You can then infiltrate using the tactics detailed for the “North Rock Plateau”, or sprint to the helipad if you need to use the helicopter (to attack or use for extraction).

Helipad And Pool Area

There are far fewer enemies on this side of the hacienda, and the planters and arched garden walls can be used for cover. Tagging the two Unidad soldiers at the entrance and just inside the ground floor entrance to the mansion takes timing to avoid all hell breaking loose. Or, you can drop Ghosts from a helicopter, onto the roof or the balcony above the entrance.

South Hills

Having a sniper prowling the area between here and G allows you to tag foes on the ground, as well as the sniper standing on the south side of the mansion roof. Provide covering fire for the Ghost ascending the building interior, dropping any Unidad on the roof, too. This is also close to the helipad, if you’re using the chopper to escape. Or simply retreat to the south.

Southwest Sniper Nest

Overlook this single sniper foe at your peril. This is a great vantage point for tagging enemies using your drone, calling down a mortar strike, and raking the main courtyard with fire, along with your team backing you up from other angles. There’s also the flexibility of dropping down into the compound, retreating, or moving around to the ammo box near A. Train your sniper rifle on the rooftop enemies, too.

El Emisario’s Hacienda (Mansion) The garish construction within the red walls of this compound is where the target resides. Though it isn’t necessary to enter at the ground floor (the west and east sides each have entrances, though the former is heavily guarded), this is the normal way in. You could always drop in unannounced onto the roof, though. The mansion interior has around four Unidad guards to deal with as you climb the staircases, and head up onto the roof itself. Two are inside the building, with another two on the roof, along with a cartel sniper. Close assault takedowns are needed here. El Emisario himself is twisting in the wind, up in a rooftop chamber. Remove the note from him once he’s been spotted, and the mission concludes. Make sure your escape plan is as thorough as your infiltration!

Buchon House: Tactical Advice

With no innocents to worry about, you have the full might of the Rebel Support, as well as the more reckless members of your posse at your command. You may wish to try a full assault with an armored vehicle heading up from A into the main courtyard, but that’s an easy way to get killed. Instead, figure out a way for your teammates to back you up (taking the high ground and sniping, following you in, or moving to an opposite hacienda entrance to engage the enemy only after you’re inside the mansion).

Try a subtle infiltration with as few foes removed as possible. Do this after dark for more stealth opportunities. Head down from B, C, or in from D, E, or F, and enter the mansion at the eastern entrance with minimal combat. Then climb to the roof; at this point your teammates could create a distraction in the main courtyard to the west. Just be aware of the three Unidad foes along the stairs and up to the roof.

Another option is to simply parachute (or land a chopper) onto the mansion roof, and enter the rooftop almost instantly. This isn’t subtle, and the extraction is a lot more fraught than the infiltration!

A swift infiltration with fellow snipers covering the main Ghost from the rocky surroundings is an excellent method to reach El Emisario. The lead Ghost should drop down from B, C, D, E, or F, perhaps with a colleague to back them up, and enter via the eastern entrance by the pool. Each should already know which enemy they are going to remove ahead of time, so combat is split up. Meanwhile, a sniper on the north (B, C, D) or south (F, G) rocks provide fire support.