“You have an all out prize fight, you wait until the fight is over, one guy is left standing. And that’s how you know who won.”
You will first be introduced to Legacy Goals when you reach 1 January 1921, when you get a window popping up to welcome you to a new year and to let you know how you’re currently doing. So what are they? In short, they are some goals to achieve in game by the end of Prohibition, 3 December 1933.
The more goals you have achieved, the more you will be remembered by history. For instance, three means “your name will be well known to anybody who’s anybody” in the city, and six means “your wealth and savvy will become the stuff of legends” – joining the leagues of Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Arnold Rothstein and other infamous Prohibition Era gangsters we still talk about today.
There are 12 legacy goals in total in the base game. Unless you’ve been out really early and taken out a rival outfit’s crew member, you will start off with one already completed (Earned the Dividends of Peace, see below). Don’t worry if you lose that one, by the way, there are still plenty of others and “to win” you only need six.
The thing about these goals is that most of them are very easy to achieve by simply playing the game and not even thinking about it, so you can easily have a minimum of six done by 1926 – if not before. For most of the goals, once you have achieved them, you almost can’t lose them, unless you make extremely deliberate attempts to do so.
Which DLCs you have installed (if any) will determine what additional legacy goals you can achieve. Three are tied to a specific map (Atlantic City, Cincinnati, Philadelphia), five are tied to a specific nationality, and one gets added to every map in the game.
If you play as, say, a German in Philadelphia and have Shadow Government, you will have three extra (15 in total) legacy goals someone with only the base game wouldn’t have. In fairness, this also makes getting six goals in total easier to achieve because you have three more options.
Fame
| Goal name | Fame achievement | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Grasping the Gilded Age | Have the highest net worth (cash, assets, operations) of all outfits in the city. | Just keep building your operations, you’ll get there. |
| Enburdened by Destiny | At least 30% of the city must be under your control | This is misleading. It isn’t to do with how many corners are in your territory, like you’d assume, it’s about how much of the map you’ve explored. (This is why my Chicago game says 100%, because I explored every single corner on the map. I do not control/own every single corner of the map, nor would it be possible to.) |
| Coarse and Cunning | Have at least 7 Captains in your crew. | This is very easy to achieve. Promote some people when you have the chance and you’ll get there. You don’t have to assign them any specific roles after that, it doesn’t matter, but if you have the Criminal Record and Shadow Government DLCs you could have seven captains with each each one assigned to a different role. |
| Casino Mogul (Atlantic City) | Build at least one Luxury Casino and fill it with features. | I don’t currently know how many features you can build in a Luxury Casino (15?), but you need to fill all the available slots. |
| Steaking [sic] Your Claim (Philadelphia) | Run 3 unique captain schemes. | Have at least three captains assigned to different roles and send them each on a scheme. I don’t know (yet) if ending a scheme early will count for this or not. |
“We’re having too good a time today. We ain’t thinking about tomorrow.”
Connections
| Goal name | Connection achievement | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Collector of Favors | Have at least 15 affiliates owing you Favors. | Not going to be a problem. Businesses obviously counts for this, but if it’s only about who owes you a Favor, hooligans, event hosts and cops should count towards this as well. |
| Player with Railroads | Have a train depot in your territory and do business with it at least once. | As long as you find a train station and get it inside your territory, and do at least one illegal trade deal with them, you’re fine. |
| Nation’s Freight Handler | Have a longshoremen’s hall in your territory and do business with it at least once. | As long as you find a longshoreman’s hall and get it inside your territory, and do at least one illegal trade deal with them, you’re fine. |
| Friends in High Places (Shadow Government) | Get a new mayor elected. | Enacting the “law” Replace the Mayor costs 80 influence, but when you start to have some cash to go around, sponsoring politicians and getting them elected shouldn’t be a problem. It might take a couple of election cycles to get there, but it’s not too difficult to achieve. |
“I hope the investigation turns out to be nothing. It’d be a shame to see a lifetime of work go to waste.”
Economy
| Name | Economic achievement | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Producer of Alcohols | Based on total value of all alcohol produced previous month, have the most profitable booze manufacturing in the city. | Easy. Just keep building your operations, you’ll get there. |
| Distributor to the People | Based on total value of all booze sold previous month, have the most profitable booze sales and distribution in the city. | Easy. Just keep building your operations, you’ll get there. |
| Supplier to the Stars | Have at least one fancy hotel that’s also a tied house. | This means to have an exclusive trade deal with a fancy hotel (silver bell symbol) in your territory. As long as you have an exclusive trade deal with one of them when the game ends, you should be fine. |
| Bourbon Kings (Cincinnati) | Sell 500 cases of Bourbon. | Not something you can achieve early on in the game because for a Bourbon Bottling plant to run you need Whiskey Barrels (T3). |
| Indomitable Spirits (Polish) | Build at least 3 unique spirit production operations. | Any three of Moonshine, Bathtub Gin, Bottled Vodka, Gin, or Nalewka should work for this. Shouldn’t be too difficult. |
| Smoke Show (English) | Sell 1000 cartons of cigarettes. | Selling in corner speaks does not count towards this for some reason! They have to be sold directly to businesses. |
| Sudhouse Specialist (German) | Sell 2500 cases of German Lager. | |
| Whiskey Fields (Irish) | Sell 500 cases of blended whiskey, bottled whiskey, and aged whiskey. | Not something you can achieve early on in the game. |
“And what of your reputation for violence? That those who don’t buy your product are dealt with violently?”
“I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say ‘You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.’”
Competitors
| Name | Competitor achievement | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Obliterated Competition | Take out at least 50% of the city’s other outfits, one way or another. | It says “through whatever means necessary”, but it kind of does mean by killing them off. You can’t get the last member standing of their crew arrested, so you’ll have to kill at least one of them. |
| Neutralized Hooligans | Take out at least 50% of the city’s corner hooligans, one way or another. | Paying them off or hiring them into your crew counts towards this goal. You don’t have to murderhobo them. |
| Earned the Dividends of Peace | Have never triggered a vendetta with another outfit. | The easiest one to lose and once this is lost, you can’t get it back. How to avoid losing it? Don’t kill any rival crew members. (Hooligans don’t count.) Attack them, rough them up, defend yourself, but don’t kill. Unsure if you can get around this by taking out all the other crew members through raids from the feds until you’re left with taking out only the rival boss. They can’t exactly have a grudge against you if they’re all dead. |
| Finders Keepers (Italian) | Have stolen at least 500 cases of booze from enemy safehouses. | You can come across safe houses from hooligans that have been taken out by other outfits or other hooligans, so you could (in theory) achieve this one without bloodshed. |
“We’re both getting old. All that we have left now are our memories.”