Baron Challenges

> "*My clients are always watching.*"
> ― The Baron
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**Baron Challenges** are a set of additional missions in *Desperados III*. They're not part of the story campaign, and are narrated by a mysterious, eponymous, eerie and almost supernatural individual simply known as "The Baron", who handles contracts and bounties to the player as requested by his clients. He always contacts the player through letters bearing his seal.

The challenges are alternate versions of each level in the main game (except the two flashback missions on Devil's Canyon). The missions usually feature different playable characters, different enemy placement, as well and changed or additional objectives. Often they also modify some of the usual gameplay rules by limiting or expanding abilities (e.g. disabled melee attacks, only shoot from the roof, multiple knife throws or traps, etc.) or even introduce completely new features like a gatling on a minecart in Contact! or allowing to play as animals in Rescue Aid Society.

## List of Challenges

These are the the 13 Baron Challenges in the game:

1. One Woman Army (Byers Pass)
2. Vanishing Act (Flagstone)
3. Untitled Voodoo Mission (Higgins' Estate)
4. Hazards of the Trade (O'Hara Ranch)
5. Public Transportation (Eagle Falls)
6. Three Men With No Name (Baton Rouge)
7. Bear Trap Triplets (Mississippi River)
8. Best Served Cold (New Orleans)
9. Rescue Aid Society (Queen's Nest)
10. The Devil is in the Details (New Orleans Docks)
11. Contact! (DeVitt Goldmine)
12. For a Few Bullets More (Las Piedras)
13. Bird Hunting (Casa DeVitt)
14. What If? (Devil's Canyon)

## Unlocking Baron Challenges

The first challenges are unlocked after completing the mission Louisiana Voodoo from the main story. All successive main story mission except A Cart Full of Gunpowder then unlock further Baron challenges.

* Louisiana Voodoo unlocks
	+ Untitled Voodoo Mission
	+ Three Men With No Name
* Back Alley Jazz unlocks
	+ Bear Trap Triplets
	+ Best Served Cold
* Burn the Queen unlocks
	+ Hazards of the Trade
	+ Rescue Aid Society
* Dirt and Blood unlocks
	+ Vanishing Act
	+ Public Transportation
* The Wages of Pain unlocks
	+ The Devil is in the Details
* A Captain of Industry unlocks
	+ For a Few Bullets More
	+ Bird Hunting
* The Old and the New unlocks
	+ One Woman Army
	+ Contact!
	+ What If?

## Baron Challenges by Character

* 12 Challenges with John Cooper‎
* 9 Challenges with Doc McCoy‎
* 11 Challengs with Hector Mendoza‎
* 10 Challenges with Kate O'Hara‎
* 7 Challenges with Isabelle Moreau‎

## Trivia

* At release (June 16th, 2020), the game only featured five Baron challenges: Contact!, The Devil is in the Details, For a Few Bullets More, Hazards of the Trade, and One Woman Army. However, most of the parts for the other challenges, including their descriptions, was already in the game at that time.
* On July 23rd, 2020, the next four challenges were released: Vanishing Act, Untitled Voodoo Mission, Public Transportation, Bird Hunting
* On August 20th, 2020, another four challenges were released: Rescue Aid Society, Three Men With No Name, Bear Trap Triplets, Best Served Cold
* Finally, on September 2nd, 2020, the last challenge was released together with the first DLC: What If?
* In Best Served Cold, The Baron is hinted to be from New Orleans, and that only a few people there know his true name.
* The Baron is never met in-game, but he's briefly described in the dossiers of The Devil is in the Details and What If?, as a man with dark skin complexion wearing a fine and expensive suit with deep colors, always smiling with his ivory teeth and having eyes that are "impossibly bright".

## See also

* Category:Desperados III Baron Challenges