Treasure hunts

Treasure hunts are a new type of event introduced in Total War: Warhammer II. Instead of choosing to colonize a ruined settlement, an army/Lord can choose to treasure hunt instead. This brings up an event window with a "choose your own adventure" style, presenting several options to the player as well as a narrative to go along with it. An army cannot colonize a settlement on the same turn they treasure hunt.

Treasure hunts can also be done in the ocean: at shipwrecks, sea corpses, skull reefs, mysterious islands and remnants of battle. Some of these also present options, while others merely have an instant effect.

List of treasure hunts by type

New

Added in the Aye-Aye! Patch

• Rubric of the Old Ones
• Cuboid of the Old Ones
• Dial of the Old Ones
• Cypher of the Old Ones

Ruins

Provide a four-choice dilemma without any indication of the results of each choice:

• Abandoned Barracks
• Chaotic Fungus
• Eight-Legged Fiends!
• Effigy of Gork
• Flooded Armoury
• Foetid Daughter of Grandfather Nurgle
• Diabolical Weaponry
• Disturbing the Dead
• Mechanical Automaton
• Mysterious Stranger
• One Egg or Two?
• One Good Turn
• Perverse Practitioners of Excess
• Picked Clean
• Rats, Rats Everywhere!
• Rebel Scum
• Scavengers
• Spoils of War
• The Beast Within
• The Cursed Sword
• The Liche Lord
• The Tattered Library
• The Underworld Sea
• Tomb of the Mummy
• Undead Sentinels

Mysterious Islands

Provide a two-choice dilemma with some indication of the results of each choice:

• The Power That Surrounds Us
• Stranger Things
• Abandoned Camp

Shipwrecks

Causes a dilemma or event:

• Abandon Ship!
• The Cursed Islet - a dilemma that can result in a battle against another army
• Sunken Treasure Ship: Bonus experience +1500, Treasury +2500.

Skull Reefs

All skull reefs give the player +10000 treasury, in addition to other effects.

• Hoard of the Vampire Admiral

Sea Corpse

Causes random events:

• Beasts of the Deep: +1800 treasury
• Monsters at Sea: +2500 treasury, +1500 bonus experience

Fell Cargo

Causes dilemmas or random events:

• Abandon Ship!
• Cursed Isle: Treasury +5000
• Lost Convoy: Treasury +5000

Remnants of Battle

Causes random events:

• In the Aftermath

Sources

• This post by Reddit user edliu.
• This video by YouTube user Sandy.
• Original research of our wiki editors.