Metsuke (TWS2)

Metsuke

Overview

The metsuke are your daimyo's secret policemen, recruited through the market building chain. Metsuke ensure loyalty and obedience from friendly generals and keep your settlements and armies safe from enemy subterfuge when positioned inside them. Metsuke can also bribe enemy garrisons, generals and armies, and detect, capture and try enemy agents in your territory. They are especially vulnerable to removal from the game through conversion by enemy monks or missionaries.

Recruitment Cost: 500

Actions

• Bribery: Chance of buying off a general and/or several units in an enemy army.
• Detection: Chance of finding enemy agents and/or armies moving through your territories.
• Overseeing: Reduces the success rate of enemy actions on an army or settlement and increases town income by reducing corruption.
• Apprehending Agents: Chance of arresting an enemy agent and having them temporarily imprisoned or executed.

Requires

• Buildings:
  • Market

Skills

Below is the chart showing skills of a metsuke in chronological order:-

Effects & Description

Below is the table containing info on the effects and descriptions of various skills of a metsuke.

Skill	Effects	Description
Counter-espionage	Level 1 +1 to cunning when counterspying Level 2 +2 to cunning when counterspying Level 3 +4 to cunning when counterspying	A hunter's eye and a jilted lover's suspicions bring only sadness.
Magistrate	Level 1 +1 to cunning when overseeing towns Level 2 +2 to cunning when overseeing towns	"I am the law!"
Bribery	Level 1 +1 to cunning when bribing Level 2 +2 to cunning when bribing Level 3 +4 to cunning when bribing	Gold always eases the slight stings of pride.
Investigator	Level 1 +1 to cunning when apprehending Level 2 +2 to cunning when apprehending Level 3 +3 to cunning when apprehending	Lies and truth are leaves floating on the water.
Secret Policeman	Level 1 +1 to cunning when overseeing armies Level 2 +2 to cunning when overseeing armies Level 3 +4 to cunning when overseeing armies	"How much porcelain gets broken at the end of the day?"
Yakuza Contacts	Level 1 +1 to imprisonment time for agents apprehened by metsuke Level 2 +2 to imprisonment time for agents apprehened by metsuke Level 3 +4 to imprisonment time for agents apprehened by metsuke	There is secret honour in dishonour for a lord's cause.
Iaijutsu	Level 1 +2% to the chance of escape following an unsuccessful action Level 2 +4% to the chance of escape following an unsuccessful action Level 3 +8% to the chance of escape following an unsuccessful action	The quickness of the hand deceives the eye.
Censor	Level 1 +1 to cunning when overseeing towns Level 2 +2 to cunning when overseeing towns Level 3 +3 to cunning when overseeing towns	"No one needs to see that!"
Traveller	Level 1 +3% to campaign movement range for the army this agent is embedded into Level 2 +6% to campaign movement range for the army this agent is embedded into Level 3 +9% to campaign movement range for the army this agent is embedded into	Duty is fleet footed.
Strength of Will	Level 1 +2% to the chance of escaping from enemy agents Level 2 +4% to the chance of escaping from enemy agents Level 3 +8% to the chance of escaping from enemy agents	The man who will do anything for his lord has iron in his soul.
Mercantile Contacts	Level 1 -10% reduced action cost Level 2 -20% reduced action cost Level 3 -40% reduced action cost	For all their prattle, merchants have ears and hear much.
Legendary Thieftaker	Level 1 +10% to the agent's critical success chance +10% to the chance of detecting ninja Level 2 +20% to the agent's critical success chance +25% to the chance of detecting ninja	"Get your kimono on, you're nicked!"
Eyes & Ears	Level 1 +15% increase to campaign map line of sight Level 2 +30% increase to campaign map line of sight	"Many eyes, many tongues: one understanding."