02 - Traveling Salesman | Sequence 5 AC IV: Black Flag Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
Before you start this mission, make sure that you have the smoke bombs! After you start, initiate the eagle vision to mark the two that you need to follow. Then, go after them. Just like usually, use the passer-bys and all kinds of thickets to prevent being spotted.
OPTIONAL OBJECTIVE- kill guards stunned by smoke bombs
Prins and Torres will soon enter the closed area guarded by two guards. Make sure that they are a few meters ahead and simply walk in between the two guards, throw a smoke bomb and press the attack button for your character to kill both of them at the same time. Nobody should react to that but, just in case, run down and hide behind the corner. If it is clear, simply run ahead and hide in the thickets. Then, resume following the group.
OPTIONAL OBJECTIVE- kill four gunners
A few meters ahead, the men that you follow will be going through a road where you will find a rope. To make it easier to locate, note that it Is glowing in the screenshot. Once it is clear, use the rope to make it onto the rooftop. Once there, run ahead, from the screenshot's perspective, and jump over to another building, where you will find a musketeer, which you need to kill to meet the optional objective's requirements.
From the rooftop's corner, you can jump onto the trees, over which you will make it onto the next rooftop with another gunner, which also needs to be dealt with. Return then to the street level by jumping into the nearby cart with hay, by which Prins and Torres will walk.
The two that you follow will make a short stop to see the execution.
Soon, they will be passing by another couple of guards. Deal with them in a manner similar to the previous one and kill them also, while they are stunned with the explosion of the bomb. You need to remember, though, that you need to wait for the targets to walk away a bit, some 8 meters, and jump into the nearby thickets right after killing them.
At the next turn, they will be passing by a house where you will find another musketeer. As soon as you get the opportunity, climb up the ladder and kill him.
A bit further, there will be another plantation entrance and the last two to kill, after you stun them with the bomb. Once you kill them, walk inside and hide in the bushes.
You will have to keep close to eavesdrop on their conversation. Keep moving among the hiding places and eliminate the nearby guards at the same time. Once the targets return to the main road, jump onto the rooftop and follow them from above.
Keep jumping from a rooftop to another using the trees. Right in front of the entrance to Prins's estate, there are two buildings connected with a log, where you will find the last gunner for the optional objective. From the tops of both buildings, you will be able to jump down into the haystack in the closed area, where the two have just entered. Do that and continue along your path between bushes. Once Prins and Torres reach the end, a cutscene will start.
Kill the guards
Finally, you will have to face five soldiers, including three English versions of the Spanish brutes with grenades. You should still have two smoke bombs so, use them to eliminate the enemies quickly. If you have no bombs left, run away in a way that will allow you to have, not more than, one enemy next to you, and break his defense (the jump button) and hit the exposed back. Also, run away from grenades.