La Casa Grande Mission Walk Through

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The new Limited Time Mission is called La Casa Grande. If you assumed it would be focused in the Secret District, you were wrong. Most of the tasks are in Brazil . This one may be hard for players to finish as there is a surprise 9th part which will cost a lot of stamina to complete. Overall this Mission is a waste of time. The tasks are boring, repetitive and not a lot of thought was put into them. Other than the Grand Prize there aren't any decent loot rewards. If you can live without the loot and the experience bonuses, I would suggest just skipping this Mission all together. It's would be much better to spend your energy working on the Secret District because you get skill points. It's a shame Zynga didn't think of the players and placed this Mission in the Secret District.

I was disappointed that this Mission has nothing to do with the Secret District, Leticia, Colombia. The name suggests such a connection as the La Casa Grande refers to a house built by rich cartel leaders in Leticia in the 1970s when illegal drug trafficking was rampant. Since the consumable item for the Secret District is called the Casa Grande Reservation, you would think this Mission would be centered in Leticia, Colombia.

Part 1

Good Help These Days

Rob 20 times. It has to be in Brazil and you must be successful or it won't count.

Here is somewhere nobody ever goes so most of you won't have a timer going. Make 5 items from your Brazil Workshop to complete this task. A fully upgraded Workshop can make 6 items every 18 hours.

 Now they want you to go to Chicago and activate 4 of your Crew Positions.

The loot reward is 4 Longhorn Limo which is a Tier 4 War loot item. The stats aren't as good as we saw in the last Mission.

Part 2

A Fun Means To A Regretful End

Win 5 wars. You can declare your own wars and win or you can get credit for winning a war if you are the last person on the winning side to attack. If you respond to a war help request and get the option to attack the head shot, you will get credit.

Ice 15 opponents in Brazil.

Get support from your mafia X6. I dread these tasks because most of the time they don't work. I used the Mission Crew Link Spocklet and had no trouble this time. Instead of just a random spockon.me link, the Mission Crew Spocklet will generate a news feed post.

Clear 5 Robbing Boards.  It doesn't matter if you win or lose, you just have to rob all properties on the Robbing Board. For less clicking, use your Rob Squad boosts. The "Go Now" button will take you to the Brazil Robbing Page but if you are low on Stamina, you can clear a board in Chicago and it will count.

There are no loot rewards for Part 2 but you get 3 Hired Guns and a totally nerfed Experience Bonus.

Part 3

Hard Time

Do the District 8 Brazil "Scout For Potential" 5 times. 

Take out 25 Fresh Fish from the Brazil fightlist. Each Fresh Fish costs 10 stamina to attack and you get +2 experience. This will throw your ratios off a bit.

Buy 4 items from your Brazil Black Market. This task will take some time as you can only purchase one item every 23 hours. There are only 10 days to do the Mission and this task alone will take up to 4 days of it.

The loot rewards are 4 Prison Chain Whips. The rewards from this Mission are starting to look really crappy.

Part 4

New Room Mate

Declare a war 3 times. There is a 8 hour timer between wars so this task will take an entire day to complete without using Reward Points.

Do the District 8 Brazil Job "Arrrange for Prisoner Transfers" 5 times.

Collect from your Barracks 3 times. Remember you get stamina for collecting on your Barracks so don't do it when you have full stamina. There is an 8 hour wait time between collections.

Collect from Union Hall if you don't want need the energy from your Refinery to level.

There are no loot rewards but we get 5 Hired Guns. Why does Zynga think we need Hired Guns so bad? I hardly know anybody who doesn't have 500 mafia at this point. Maybe they forgot that new players are about as rare the Street Blade was.

Part 5

Ganged Up

Loot 10 Lead Pipes from doing jobs. Don't let Zynga trick you into spending all of your energy. The "Go Now" button takes you to District 8 in Brazil and you will see Lead Pipe icons on all the jobs.

You will also see them on the District 1 jobs which cost a lot less energy.

In fact, if you are hard up for energy, you can get them from the New York job that only costs 1 energy per click. I forgot to see if you can buy them from the City Store as well.

Take out 20 Chain Gangsters from the New York fightlist. Each Chain Gangster costs 20 stamina to attack and you get +2 experience.

Ice 20 opponents in Brazil.

You get 3 Prisoner Transporters as your loot rewards. I wish the guys who wrote the last Mission did this one two as it really sucks as far as rewards are concerned.

Part 6

They Don't Check Out

Do the Brazil District 8 job "Bribe a Taubate Prison Worker" 5 times.

Again, don't let Zynga trick on this task. It doesn't matter how you acquire 10 Henchmen even though the "Go Now" button takes you to the Marketplace. The easiest way to get 10 Henchmen is to go to a City Store that has Henchmen (Las Vegas, Italy and Brazil) and buy them with in game currency. I bought 10 in Italy with my useless Lira.

Get 8 Crew members in Brazil requires that you add 8 members to your queue. All you need to do is make sure you have 8 empty slots and click the "Recruit" button to fill them up. There are no loot rewards for this part of the Mission.

Part 7

Overpower

Take out 20 Prison Guards from the Brazil fightlist. Each Prison Guard takes 18 stamina to attack. I think they over used this type of task. This Mission is boring me to death.

Another "Get Support from your Mafia" X6. I was given a gift from God and mine was auto-checked. Maybe there was carry over from Part 1. I didn't think about it too much and was just grateful. Again there are no loot rewards.

Part 8

The Snitch Ain't One Of Them

Collect from your Headquarters 4 times. If you collected from you other Brazil properties within the past 8 hours, you will have to use Union Hall. There is a 8 hour wait between collection times so this task will take at least a day to complete.

Rob 40 times. You have to win and you need to be in Brazil for it to count.

Take out Shanco is another lame fightlist target. Sancho costs 150 stamina to attack.

It's a really boring task. They could at least give this guy a picture or something to make it more eventful than the +1 experience you get.

This task made me think of Sancho who is a funny character in a movie from the 1990's called Orgazmo.

The one and only loot item that even makes this Mission worth the time and effort (other than the experience bonuses) is the Grand Prize called a Jaguarundi.

If you thought the Mission was over, think again. There is a super part and you can get another Grand Prize item...

Part 9

Clean Up And Clean Up

Clear 11 Robbing Boards. The "Go Now" button will take you to the Brazil Robbing Page but you will get credit for any destination you choose to rob in.

Now you have to "Get Support From Your Mafia" X20. Thankfully the Mission Crew Link Spocklet worked like a charm.

This last part is going to take a while. Kills don't happen very often and 50 of them seems like it will take forever. It's too bad that an ice isn't good enough for this task. For now, I'll assume there are no more parts to this Mission and post an update with how much stamina it will take to complete this task. So far, I've used 4,921 stamina to get 3 kills. Maybe someone will find a glitch or a way to make this easier. It costs 338 Reward Points to buy off this task and based on the waiting periods of the other tasks, it looks like Zynga planned this strategically on their end in hopes that players will spend money. It will probably backfire and more will quit.

UPDATE:  76,276 stamina later and I got the 50 kills. I wanted to see how much stamina it would cost to get kills off the fightlist so I didn't utilize any strategies to make this task easier which are explained below. I think Zynga is expecting too much with this task. Many players will be towards the expiration by the time they get to this task and won't be able to complete it.

Mike Nestor showed me a trick you can use with your mini account or a friend who will go on auto-heal and let you attack him or her.  Take your mini and put it on auto-heal. Attack it using the "5 Attack" button until it's almost dead.

When your target account is close to dead, switch to the "25 Power Attack" button.

You will find you get a good number of kills. In the long run this will cost a lot less stamina. You can try loading your target account in the Assasin-a-Nator and do target specific fighting as well.

This is the last part of the Mission. You get a good experience bonus and another Grand Prize loot item but it's hardly worth what you need to spend to get it done.

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