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

• Rubric of the Old Ones
• Cuboid 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!
• 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.