Have the Sabbat in a corner trying to find recruits. Not shovelheads, people with actual potential. The warpacks in town are the people that survived Gehenna and the ensuing civil strife within the sabbat, so they're hard as hell, paranoid, careful real tough nuts, but they've been building up other packs that don't have the same experience or age so you got some neonate sabbat that can be dealt with by the player without as much pain. That also gives you a bunch of free sidequests. Sabbat is going to try and recruit x, y and z, either stop them or help them.