The heroes move across an overworld and underworld, collecting gold, gaining experience, and acquiring artifacts. The armies range from your standard elves, dwarves and knights, all the way through to paragons of the underworld like demons and the undead. Each hero belongs to a city type, determining both the type of hero and it's army of minions. For those unfamiliar with it, you take control of, depending on the map, any number of heroes, who each can control an army of underlings varying in both power and looks.
Easily my favorite of the Might and Magic series, HoMM3 is a gem of a strategy game.
