New Bordeaux contains 30 communist propaganda posters. Unlike an album cover or magazine, each one is attached to a wall, door, tower, or other vertical surface and is removed through an interaction. Wiretap the local sector, inspect the correct face of the structure, and confirm the poster count before moving on.
The collection uses repeated poster designs. Track physical locations, not only the artwork series shown in the gallery, because seeing every design is not the same as removing all 30 copies on the map.
Look for a surface, not a loose object
Exterior brick wall
Walk around warehouses and utility buildings. The icon may sit near the center while the poster is on one outer face.
Door or entry panel
Check the approach to offices, towers, garages, and service rooms rather than searching the floor inside.
Upper structure
Use stairs and ladders where available. Published routes include elevated parking and lookout positions.
Hostile property
Clear the immediate racket objective first, then search the building perimeter without combat prompts interrupting the removal.
The interaction point can be narrower than the visible artwork. Face the poster directly and move close until the prompt appears. If Lincoln only takes cover, step back, center the camera, and approach without holding the cover input.
Reveal sectors before starting a district
Each junction box requires three TL-49 fuses and reveals icons in its own sector. A district with several boxes needs several taps. Check the map boundary so an unseen poster in the far side of the district is not mistaken for a missing item.
Carry enough fuses for the planned loop. Collecting random fuses between every poster breaks the route and makes it harder to remember which walls were checked. Early in the campaign, tap boxes that also support an active racket; late in the game, complete the remaining sectors in one preparation pass.
Filter the map to propaganda only. Vargas art and other collectibles can sit in the same industrial compound, and their icons become difficult to distinguish when zoomed out.
Use landmarks to solve ambiguous icons
Written guides identify useful structure types: a long brick warehouse, the outer wall of a utility building, an upper level of a multi-story parking garage, and a lookout-tower door. The exact street approach matters less than recognizing the object that can carry a poster.
If the marker is in a block of connected buildings, circle the whole exterior before entering. A propaganda poster is often accessible from the street even when the nearby office is locked. At a tower or garage, follow stairs upward and check doors at landings rather than searching directly below the icon.
Night and rain can reduce contrast. Use headlights or return during daylight if the artwork blends into the wall; changing the route is safer than adjusting files or installing visual modifications just for a collectible.
Sweep in compact geographic loops
Finish Delray Hollow, River Row, and Pointe Verdun after their home-territory missions, then pair central districts by road connection. Downtown and the French Ward form a dense loop; Tickfaw Harbor and Barclay Mills share an industrial search style; Frisco Fields and Southdowns benefit from a delivered car.
Bayou or outer-area travel should be planned last unless a mission already takes Lincoln there. Set one waypoint at a time and avoid a straight cross-country line through water. The nearest road, bridge, or dock is usually faster than correcting a stuck vehicle.
After each district, compare the global physical count with the route subtotal. Do not use only the gallery’s design-completion display: the repeated images can create a misleading feeling that the set is finished.
Recover a poster that seems missing
First confirm the correct sector is wiretapped and every other collectible filter is disabled. Zoom in and compare the icon with the route source. Search the opposite wall, the next level, and any door facing away from the street.
If the poster is absent, consider whether it was removed just before a death or reload. Open Collections, move away to trigger a save, and return. A poster inside an active hostile site is best revisited after the racket or story mission completes.
At 29 of 30, replay the first district whose physical subtotal was not recorded. Use a visual guide only for that cluster rather than restarting the entire route. Verify Steam files before altering local save data, and keep a backup before any experiment.
Completion and rewards
Removing the posters fills their entry in Collections and contributes to New Bordeaux exploration. It does not grant a dedicated Steam achievement. Players pursuing only achievements can skip the full route; collectors should treat the finished gallery as the reward.
This distinction is helpful because the collection is large and geographically spread out. Pick up easy posters during district work, then decide near the end whether the remaining route is worth the time. Nothing in the main story is blocked by leaving one on a wall.
The posters are part of the base-game map for AppID 360430. They are not the wanted posters associated with another Mafia title, and a guide for Lost Heaven will not match New Bordeaux.
Sources and verification
- Communist Propaganda in Mafia III — same-game series and collection behavior.
- Gamepressure propaganda map — independent location and elevation cross-check.
- Fenix Bazaar collectibles guide — warehouse, utility-building, garage, and lookout landmarks.
- Official extended manual — first-party map, fuse, wiretap, and Collections context.