An interesting feature of Fog of War: Napoleonic War is the invention of treasure maps.  Treasure maps can be found inside other treasure boxes or found while gathering on a wilderness map square.  To decode the NapWar treasure map you need to Appraise it in your Public House.  It will cost 10 coins or some vouchers to Appraise a treasure map.

Once Appraised, you will get a new Report come in your “Others” report box.  This will say something like:

After appraisal, the location of treasure is in Desert[288,121].  Treasure will be picked after an hour’s gathering.  Take action now.  It will disappear in 24 hours.  The remaining time: 209-11-20 23:32:12.

Then you need to attack and occupy that Desert, and do a gather while your troops are still there.  After an hour you can do a Pick and you will pick up the treasure!

When NapWar tells you to act now, you really should.  Quite often with NapWar the sands shift and so do the Map wildernesses.  There are a lot of people noticing that once they’ve occupied a level 5 wilderness, in a day or two the wilderness will be down to a level 2.  Sometimes the levels go the other way too, in the example NapWar wilderness above, it started off as a level 1 Desert, but 10 hours later it was a level 10 wilderness, so was completely unobtainable by any but the highest prestige ranked players.