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There are a maximum of 60 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood achievements (50 without DLC) worth 1,926 (1,250)

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Spring Cleaning Achievement in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Spring Cleaning13 (10)

Offline Required - This achievement requires play in offline game modesSingle Player - This achievement can be obtained in single player game modes
Kill a guard with a broom.

Achievement Guide for Spring Cleaning

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Guffyjon
46,632
Guffyjon
Achievement won on 16 Nov 10
TA Score for this game: 1,143
Posted on 17 November 10 at 22:20
This solution has 91 positive votes and 2 negative votes. Please log in to vote.
Find a sweeping citizen of Rome and bump into them to get them to drop their broom. Press B to pick the broom up and get ready to find a guard and smack em on the head with your weapon of mass destruction! Just find a guard and beat em to death. EZ Cheevo!

GL
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T VIRUS 4 LIFE
286,509
T VIRUS 4 LIFE
Achievement won on 31 Dec 10
TA Score for this game: 1,926
Posted on 31 December 10 at 19:52
This solution has 28 positive votes and 3 negative votes. Please log in to vote.
Simple place to find this is on the right hand side of the bridge going to the vatican. There is some steps down to the river on the right hand side with a man sweeping up, bump into him and press B to pick up the broom.

Then just beat one of the guards up using X
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Chris8875
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Chris8875
Achievement won on 21 Dec 10
TA Score for this game: 1,452
Posted on 22 December 10 at 02:50
This solution has 25 positive votes and 1 negative vote. Please log in to vote.
In Sequence 3 you will come into contact with the courtesans, opening up a line of tasks that you can do with them.

The first one involves tailing a courtesan who is hanging around with a ne-er do well and killing that ne-er do well from a hiding place (a well, if I recall correctly).

The good thing about this quest or task is that it will take you directly to a spot on the map where you are guaranteed to find a person with a broom sweeping.

After being given the task, go to the spot on the map where the courtesan is. It will be inside an outdoor area surrounded by buildings. As you approach the area, don't go through the main entrance (as the courtesan will spot you and the task will be failed) but instead climb up one of the surrounding buildings nearby.

When you climb up, look around. On one of the buildings - located to the left hand side of the main entrance to the outdoor square (if you are looking inside the area) will be a man using a broom to sweep.

Locate this man, climb to his building and grab him. He'll drop his broom which you are then able to pick up. Walk down the stairs and look for a pair of guards that are nearby. Simply wander up to one and belt the crap out of him with the broom until he keels over.

The achievement will pop once you kill him.
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NuffinButSteele
102,347
NuffinButSteele
Achievement won on 23 Nov 10
TA Score for this game: 1,926
Posted on 23 November 10 at 10:12
This solution has 22 positive votes and 6 negative votes. Please log in to vote.
much easier than everyone says if you bump into someone with a broom pick it up. next wilst holding the broom shoot a guard with your gun you dont have to get the kill WITH the broom just whilst HOLDING it.
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iAPoCaLYpTiiCzZ
153,842
iAPoCaLYpTiiCzZ
Achievement won on 23 Nov 10
TA Score for this game: 1,452
Posted on 23 November 10 at 22:28, Edited on 23 November 10 at 22:29
This solution has 23 positive votes and 7 negative votes. Please log in to vote.
I think near the end of the 3rd or 4th sequence you come into contact with Leonardo.

He has war machines that need to be dealt with etc etc.

You need to find the "Flying Machine 2.0" Quest, first you need to take out the overseer for the plans.

Once this is done and you load to a different location, you start ontop of a church if you look down to your left there should be a guy sweeping, jump down take broom-kill guard- CHIEVO :)
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PolityAgent
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PolityAgent
Achievement won on 14 Feb 11
TA Score for this game: 1,037
Posted on 14 February 11 at 12:57, Edited on 14 February 11 at 18:26
This solution has 17 positive votes and 1 negative vote. Please log in to vote.
While on the surface this achievement appears trivial, it actually requires some work. Using the broom is easy; making one appear requires a few hours of building up Rome. Depending upon how you play the game, this either happens automatically (making this easy), or not at all (making this hard).

I tried getting this achievement relatively early in the game, and could not find a sweeper. There are theories that sweepers only show up in the morning, or that they only show up in certain locations. I camped for 24 hours (in game time) in the 2 areas used by Rooster Teeth, and no sweepers appeared there (the sweepers appear as drunks instead). There are theories that you have to be in a district cleared of a Borgia Tower - this is partially true. There are theories that they only appear around hay wagons.

The real trigger for the sweepers is the percent renovation of Rome. Renovation requires clearing the area of its controlling Borgia tower first. So to get the sweepers to appear you need to clear out all the Borgia towers in the Rome district, then renovate all of Rome up to 40 to 50%.

At one point (in the middle of Sequence 4), I had 2 towers left in Rome, and had renovated everything in the other locations except 2 expensive landmarks - no sweepers. I took out the other 2 towers, and upgraded about 5 locations. During this time street scrubbers started to appear - people on their hands and knees washing the streets. The next time I entered the Animus, a sweeper appeared directly in front of me and dropped his broom when I approached (I was notorious at the time).

It's possible that sweepers might appear in districts other than Rome, but at Sequence 4 I don't have access to all of the Borgia towers in those districts, so I can't confirm.
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IWuvDerpyHooves
85,468
IWuvDerpyHooves
Achievement won on 28 Jul 11
TA Score for this game: 1,452
Posted on 28 July 11 at 04:43, Edited on 25 August 11 at 19:07
This solution has 13 positive votes and 2 negative votes. Please log in to vote.
This is one of the easier achievements to unlock in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.

1) Find and pick up a broom (possibly random but I found one lying on the ground just outside the Tunnel Entrance north of the Pantheon)
- Note: If you spot a civilian sweeping you can simply bump into them, push them, etc. to make them drop their broom. [thanks Reborn Insanity!]

2) Find a guard (or guards) and call in an Arrow Storm.

3) Achievement will unlock without you swinging the broom once.
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kellyanngarcia
23,351
kellyanngarcia
Achievement won on 02 Aug 11
TA Score for this game: 1,479
Posted on 02 August 11 at 19:01
This solution has 10 positive votes and 3 negative votes. Please log in to vote.
I rode my horse along the roads around the Colosseum and found a sweeper across from some guards. It was on the road leading east from the south side of the Colosseum. The sweeper dropped the broom when I galloped up. Pick it up with B and walk across the street to hit the guards or arrow storm, etc. I've seen the same guy respawn during day time, but I'm sure it's hit or miss.
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SuperSaiyanX87
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SuperSaiyanX87
Achievement won on 27 Mar 12
TA Score for this game: 838
Posted on 19 March 12 at 19:16
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Probably one of the of the trickier achievements on AC Brotherhood!Basically there are pre determined spots where the sweepers appear,though they will not be there all the time.Try now again and he will be there,then you can attack borgia troops and achievement!Here is the location i found the sweeper at.

REUPLOADED WITH NEW ACCOUNT!
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TAK of the HOLE
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TAK of the HOLE
Achievement won offline
TA Score for this game: 889
Posted on 14 September 12 at 04:06
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Dam.... You guy's might not have noticed, but there is no need to actualy atack with the broom:

Use the pistol to One-Shoot-Kill a guard. It has nothing to do with changing weapon, every main hand to hand weapon has a special atack, the knife is throwing three at once, the normal swords and similar are to shoot with the gun, some long weapons are a rotating atack and some other heavy weapons are to throw them at the enemy.

I was sure that the broom would be a throw, but it is the pistol... Just hold X and kill a guard while holding the broom.

Achievement Unlocked.

Also, the same idea applies if you use the Arrow Storm or the Assassins command... You have the broom dont you?

It is a fluke, but who knows if they ment it to be that way...
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Official PSWH
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Official PSWH
Achievement not yet won
TA Score for this game: 155
Posted on 25 April 12 at 15:39
This solution has 2 positive votes and 4 negative votes. Please log in to vote.
This video shows both the EARLIEST, and EASIEST possible way to grab yourself this Achievement.

Full instructions are given in the video, along with hints and tips.
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