# Headhunting

**Entity Type:** Skill

**German Name:** Anwerbung

## Properties

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Category | Civic |
| Type | Discovery |
| Base Cost | 750,000 Knowledge |

## Description

Headhunting is a Civic category skill that unlocks the ability to appoint rival governors as specialists in your service. This allows you to recruit competing governors to work for you as specialists.

Civic skills offer many upgrades for city administration, from powerful attribute area effects to improvements for Medici, Vigiles, and Custodes. These skills make managing your cities significantly easier.

## Effects

| Effect Type | Target | Value |
|-------------|--------|-------|
| Unlocks | Appoint Rival As Specialist | Allows hiring other governors as specialists |

## Unlock Requirements

As a Discovery skill, Headhunting requires:
1. Reaching the skill through the research path in the skill tree
2. 750,000 Knowledge to research

Discovery skills make up the majority of skills in the Anno 117 skill tree. To research them, you must first reach them via a research path. Some discoveries may require additional conditions to unlock, such as hosting a specific population type in Albion.

## Related Skills

Other Civic category skills include:
- Aleatoria
- Alliance Treaties
- Asclepian Codices
- Market Forces
- Snuffing Sedition
- Well
- Cerere et Baccho
- The Art of Gift-Giving
- Empyrean Research
- Cult of Epona
- Epona's Hoofbeat
- Artificer Intelligence
- Conservation Ordinance
- Cognoscentic Research
- Fabulae Togatae
- Voluntary Vigilance
- Hospitality
- Hazard Fighters
- Seasoned to Taste
- Shrine Staffing
- Large Loans
- Metropolitan Research
- Warmer Hospitality
- Officialdom
- Hippocratic Corps
- Imperial Parades
- Recruitment Drive
- Concordance Research
- Cult of Minerva
- Cult of Cernunnos
- Cult of Mercury-Lugus
- Latrines
- Lingua Romana
- Marble Roads
- Night Watch
- Villa Novation
- Public Funding
- Aesthetic Aedificator
- Pax Amicitia
- Fenixwrights
- Portitores
- Gubernatorial Research
- Praetorian Pumps
- Cohabitive Collaboration
- Quartermastery
- Quinquiremes
- Right to Repair
- Sanitary Measures
- Sacral Spaces
- Legally Enshrined
- Solutio Ad Hominem
- Funeral Games of Tailteann
- Municipal Research
- Day Watch
- Trireme
- Devotional Research
- Via Tributum
- Villa Visitation
- Populist Research
- Watchtowers

## Source

Data from [anno.land](https://anno.land/en/anno-117-skills/anwerbung/)