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More Shadowy Dealings (Eshin Snikch)

Adds 13 new additional shadowy dealing actions, increases available Schemes from 5 to 10, reworks cooldowns, recovery times and rewards, and generally makes the mechanic more fun and flexible.



Takeover Settlement
Eshin's murderous agents do not merely kill their enemies, for they are skilled in a whole range of espionage techniques, even able to take over other settlements.
Grants ownership over target settlement.

Deny Reinforcements
Through clever scheming, Clan Eshin have temporarily denied the enemy access to fresh troops.
Prevents enemy from recruiting for 5 turns.

Midnight Ambush
Eshin's organised death squads strike hard and fast. Enemies are swiftly and silently culled, and the devastation often remains hidden until the next morning.
Damages an army for 20% of its current health.(Agent recovery time: 2 turns)

Poison Their Food
Skilled Eshin agents wait for the perfect opportunity to plant their deadly poisons, just one drop is sufficient to generate fatal results to all those who consume it.
Damages an army for 33% of its current health (Agent recovery time: 2 turns)

Midnight Slaughter
Eshin are masters of Guerilla tactics, they attack silently and deadly under the shadows, and they decimate enemy ranks with barely a whimper to reveal the cold organised mass murder which has occurred.
Damages an army for 50% of its current health.(Agent recovery time: 2 turns)

Grand Heist
Eshin agents are specially trained to conduct raids and robberies, they plan and execute elaborate heists that leave enemy settlements wholly unaware or incapable of responding in time.
Steals up to 10000 from a settlement and reduces its income by 10% for 5 turns.

Eshins Thirteen
Eshin's master thieves pride themselves on pulling off the most audacious burglaries, they excel at identifying the most valuable assets within a settlement and swapping them with convincing fakes.
Steals up to 20000 from a settlement and reduces its income by 10% for 5 turns.

Steal the Animals
Eshin agents raid the enemy settlement and steal animals and other food sources!
Grants 25 food from a settlement.

Eat the Weak
Eshin agents raid the enemy settlement and eat their most vulnerable citizens!
Grants 50 food from a settlement

Culinary Cleansing
Sometimes even the Eshin clan prefer brutality over subterfuge, and nothing sends a stronger message in the Skaven world that night-raids that result in everything and anything, living or otherwise being consumed in an orgy of cuisine and violence!
Grants 75 food from a settlement.

Research Surveillance
Amongst the Skaven, there's no such thing as getting ahead of Clan Eshin, whose eyes – and claws – are everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Increases research rate by 50% for 10 turns.
Additional applications increase effect duration (Target any settlement).

Kidnap Researcher
Sometimes spying isn't enough, and when Clan Eshin discover a talented researcher, they simply kidnap them and offer sufficient encouragement for them to work on behalf of the clan. Increases research rate by 75% for 10 turns. Additional applications increase effect duration (Targets any settlement).

Torture Scientist
The old ways are the best, why reinvent the wheel, when you can tie a rival scientist to the wheel of death and force them to reveal all their secrets.
Increases research rate by 100% for 10 turns. Additional applications increase effect duration (Targets any settlement).


Tier 1 - 5 turn cooldown
Tier 2 - 10 turn cooldown
Tier 3 - 15 turn cooldown
Tier 4 - 20 turn cooldown

I've also reduced Snikch recovery periods from 5 to 3 for higher tier missions, and lowered other agent times also, to make it less annoying but the default penalties still apply to make costs feel legitimate.


You can now have up to 10 Schemes (vanilla default is 5), you now can complete new Nightlord Say-so Missions every 5 levels e.g.

Level 1 - Start with 1 available scheme
Level 5 - Do Nightlord-Say-So Action to unlock second
Level 45 - Do final Nightlord Say-So Action unlock 10th Scheme

Other Special Shadowy Dealings have also had their cooldowns reduced:

Plunge Into Anarchy - Now 40 Turns
Sewer Pestilence - Now 20 Turns
Great Fire - Now 20 Turns
Bomb-Scuttle Fleet - Now 20 Turns

You still generate One Scheme Per Turn (as vanilla), but the cooldown reset has been reduced from Five Turns to One. I have not changed XP gain it remains at vanilla default 1200 per Shadowy Dealing/Action completed.



This mod adds various new tables and shadowy actions, but also has tweaked vanilla values. Script changes have occured within wh2_dlc14_snikch_shadowy_dealings.lua and any mod that alters this may conflict.This mod does not alter the Snikch Clan Contracts mechanic so should be compatible with other mods that do, and I'm planning to do a separate compatible mod for it also.