Mediterranean Defense
Mediterranean Defense is a minigame in Assassin's Creed: Revelations, in which Ezio Auditore da Firenze sends apprentices to fulfill contracts in cities around Constantinople during the Renaissance.[1]
Gameplay
The Mediterranean Defense minigame consists of thirteen cities, each having a certain ratio of Templar and Assassin control. Contracts can be fulfilled to decrease Templar control or reclaim the city for the Assassins. Once a city is liberated from Templar control, it will provide regular money, XP, and ingredient rewards. Apprentices can fulfill further contracts to improve daily income, recruit new assassins, and add new bomb ingredients for purchase at Piri Reis. Templar control will always gradually increase, requiring Ezio to fulfill occasional contracts to maintain control of the city.
Apprentices can be permanently stationed in the city. This will decrease the rate at which Templar control grows, increase the maximum ratio of Assassin control in that city (depending on their level), provide regular XP rewards to the stationed assassins, and free slots to recruit new assassins. Stationed assassins are no longer available for other parts of the game, though they can be dispatched to contracts within their own city (except the first) or recalled.
If Assassin control in a reclaimed city falls to low, the Templars will attempt to retake it. Assassin apprentices must fulfill a new Defending the City contract to regain access to the city.
Cities
The cities to which Ezio can send his recruits are:
- Algiers;
- Alexandria;
- Athens;
- Bursa;
- Damascus;
- Genoa;
- Jerusalem;
- Lisbon;
- Madrid;
- Marseille;
- Tripoli;
- Tunis;
- and Rhodes (locked until the player plays each multiplayer Rhodes map).
Trivia
- There is an achievement in for controlling all of the cities simultaneously (excluding Rhodes).[1]
- Managing Assassin Guilds in reclaimed cities is the easiest method of removing Assassins should you wish to recruit more apprentices.