Mediterranean Defense

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Mediterranean Defense was the name given to the apprentice contracts in Constantinople during the Renaissance.

History

During the early 16th Century, the Assassin Brotherhood - under the direction of Ezio Auditore da Firenze, the Mentor of the Italian Assassins - sought to expand its influence by sending apprentices and recruits to cities controlled by the Templars. Their exploits ranged from simple acts, such as protecting merchants and officials who were loyal to the Brotherhood or against the Templars, to greater plots involving assassinations and freeing jailed allies. Some special requests - specifically the bomb ingredient quests of Piri Reis - involved the Assassins traveling to specific cities and mapping the area.

Many of these cities were eventually freed from Templar rule and came under Assassin control. The Brotherhood took special care to improve the standard of living in these regions by improving daily income and providing many opportunities for their newly-liberated citizens. The apprentices who were sent on these missions gained experience, and as a whole, the Assassin Order gained funds to further their operations, as well as other rewards.

A constant danger, however, was the possibility of Templar reprisal. Contracts must be completed regularly to maintain the Assassins' control of the city. Should the Assassins' control fall too low, Templars will try to retake the city and Ezio will have to assign Assassins to the Defending the City contract in order to regain full control.

The cities to which Ezio was able to send his recruits were:

• Marseille
• Damascus
• Jerusalem
• Madrid
• Lisbon
• Genoa
• Tunis
• Tripoli
• Algiers
• Alexandria
• Bursa
• Athens
• Rhodes

Trivia

• Managing Assassin Guilds reclaimed cities is the easiest method of removing Assassins should you wish to recruit more apprentices.
• Some Mediterranean Defense missions have a reward of automatically recruiting one apprentice to your ranks if you have a vacancy. These missions typically appear when you have vacancies in your Constantinople Assassin squad.
• Managing Assassin Guilds increases the percentage-of-control capacity of the city. A city with no Assassins garrisoned has a percentage-of-control capacity of 50%. The maximum amount of Assassins garrisoned permitted is 5 where the percentage-of-control capacity is 100%. However placing 5 low ranked Assassins in a city will yield a percentage-of-control capacity below 100% but higher than 50%.
• When you have Assassins garrisoned in a city, you can assign them to missions instead of drawing upon your personal group based in Constantinople. Your personal group can be used to compliment the garrisoned Assassins in city missions or bring a city back under your control from a Templar siege.
• Every 20 minutes, at the same time you receive your revenue deposit at the bank from city renovations, all the cities will lose a random percentage of Assassin control (or an increase in Templar control if you haven't reclaimed the city yet). If that percentage reduces Assassin control to 0%, the city will be sieged by the Templars and you will not receive any bomb ingredients from there.
• Some city missions require a specific type of Assassin to be assigned before any others can be assigned along. There are four types each signified by a symbol by their rank number: crossbow, heavy weapon, short blade, and hidden blade.

• There is an achievement in Assassin's Creed: Revelations called "Armchair General" for controlling all of the cities (except Rhodes) simultaneously.

Source

• Assassin's Creed: Revelations