The third game is the first in the series to move the action away from the continent of Enroth. Instead it occurs on the southern continent of Antagarich. King Gryphonheart of [[TheKingdom Erathia]] has died and the enemies of Erathia (the Antagarich branch of the Kreegan Invasion, the Dungeon Overlords of Nighon, and the Necromancers) take the opportunity of its weakened state to launch attacks against it. Queen Catherine leads a force of the Enrothian army to reclaim control of her homeland with the aid of Erathia's local allies [=AvLee=] (elven nation) and Bracada (wizard nation). The other nations on Antagarich - the barbarian nation of Krewlod and the lizardman nation of Tatalia - take this as an opportunity to bite off a little of their neighbour's territory while they are all distracted with each other: thus beginning the eight-way "Restoration War".

The third game's other ExpansionPack "Armageddon's Blade" occurs after the eventual victory of Erathia and its allies in the third game. It features the quest to stop a devil from creating the titular artifact and using it to TakeOverTheWorld. It also has a bunch of other campaigns where some other bunch of people try to do other stuff. Dragon slaying, undead hunting, et cetera.

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The third game is the first in the series to move the action away from the continent of Enroth. Instead it occurs on the southern continent of Antagarich. King Gryphonheart of [[TheKingdom Erathia]] has died and the enemies of Erathia (the Antagarich branch of the Kreegan Invasion, the Dungeon Overlords of Nighon, and the Necromancers) take the opportunity of its weakened state to launch attacks against it. Queen Catherine leads a force of the Enrothian army to reclaim control of her homeland with the aid of Erathia's local allies [=AvLee=] (elven nation) and Bracada (wizard nation). The other nations on Antagarich - the barbarian nation of Krewlod and the lizardman nation of Tatalia - take this as an opportunity to bite off a little of their neighbor's territory while they are all distracted with each other: thus beginning the eight-way "Restoration War".

The third game's other ExpansionPack "Armageddon's Blade" occurs after the eventual victory of Erathia and its allies in the third game. It features the quest to stop a devil from creating the titular artifact and using it to TakeOverTheWorld (or destroy the world, either one seems likely). It also has a bunch of other campaigns where some other bunch of people try to do other stuff. Dragon slaying, undead hunting, et cetera.

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Using the Heroes III engine, eight standalone episodes were released called Heroes Chronicles. The series starred Tarnum, who in the first episode, became the king of the Barabarians but fell to the forces of Erathia later. Resurrected, he becomes immortal and must seek redemption through a thousand-year series of quests fighting the forces of evil. He fights and defeats a campaign protagonist from Armageddon's Blade (Mutare, the Dragon Queen), but in the final episode, he fails to recover the Sword of Frost before someone else did.

Sometime after Heroes Chronicles: The Sword of Frost, the clash of the titular sword and the Armageddon's Blade releases armageddon upon the world that Heroes 1-3 were set on. Those that survived used a series of portals to evacuate to another world, which leads into the events of Heroes of Might and Magic IV.

IV, much like Armageddon's Blade, features standalone campaigns, one for each town. These include the uprising of a man who claims to be an Gryphonheart descendant tossing the new kingdom of Palaedra into civil war and the knight Lysander had to put an end to that, the efforts of Waerjak, a young barbarian to conquer all the other tribes to ensure that his people will not die out (as well as concluding the story of Tarnum, the protagonist from Heroes Chronicles), the journey of Emilia Nighthaven, a sorceress queen to stop a KnightTemplar from [[InStrumentality controlling the wills of every creature in the world]], the tale of Elwin and Shaera, which goes like a Romeo-and-Juliet meet fairy tales story with an [[OurElvesAreBetter Elvish]] civil war, the tale of Gauldoth Half-Dead, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a half-dead man]] [[AntiHero forced to play saviour of the world]], and the adventures of Tawni Balfour, a pirate captain's daughter. There are two expansion packs, which features even more heroes' tales, and these expansion packs have a GrandFinale scenarios for each pack, uniting the heroes of each scenarios for one last bang. The original 6 heroes didn't get such GrandFinale, but a custom map made for the fifth game below features the closest thing you can get for it, although only Lysander, Emilia Nighthaven and Gauldoth Half-Dead (and characters from those scenarios) are present.

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Using the Heroes III engine, eight standalone episodes were released called Heroes Chronicles. The series starred Tarnum, who in the first episode, became the king of the Barbarians but fell to the forces of Erathia later. Resurrected, he becomes immortal and must seek redemption through a thousand-year series of quests fighting the forces of evil. He fights and defeats a campaign protagonist from Armageddon's Blade (Mutare, the Dragon Queen), but in the final episode, he fails to recover the Sword of Frost before someone else did.

Sometime after Heroes Chronicles: The Sword of Frost, the clash of the titular sword and the Armageddon's Blade releases Armageddon upon the world that Heroes 1-3 were set on. Those that survived used a series of portals to evacuate to another world, which leads into the events of Heroes of Might and Magic IV.

IV, much like Armageddon's Blade, features standalone campaigns, one for each town. These include the uprising of a man who claims to be an Gryphonheart descendant tossing the new kingdom of Palaedra into civil war and the knight Lysander had to put an end to that, the efforts of Waerjak, a young barbarian to conquer all the other tribes to ensure that his people will not die out (as well as concluding the story of Tarnum, the protagonist from Heroes Chronicles), the journey of Emilia Nighthaven, a sorceress queen to stop a KnightTemplar from [[InStrumentality controlling the wills of every creature in the world]], the tale of Elwin and Shaera, which goes like a Romeo-and-Juliet meet fairy tales story with an [[OurElvesAreBetter Elvish]] civil war, the tale of Gauldoth Half-Dead, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a half-dead man]] [[AntiHero forced to play savior of the world]], and the adventures of Tawni Balfour, a pirate captain's daughter. There are two expansion packs, which features even more heroes' tales, and these expansion packs have a GrandFinale scenarios for each pack, uniting the heroes of each scenarios for one last bang. The original 6 heroes didn't get such GrandFinale, but a custom map made for the fifth game below features the closest thing you can get for it, although only Lysander, Emilia Nighthaven and Gauldoth Half-Dead (and characters from those scenarios) are present.

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** ''Elitist Faction'': The Dungeon. Low weekly growths and high unit/building costs, but its units are very powerful.
*** Castle in Heroes III as well. While their ranged units are relatively fragile and don't do much later on, out of seven units in town, ''four of them'' can be considered the best on their level or at least in top 3(Halberdiers who have the biggest health in this tier and hit like a truck because no one will bother to take them out first; Royal Griffins who have a great weekly growth, are fast and have unlimited retaliations(in the game where every other unit has only one unless enhanced with magic); Crusaders who are tough, hard-hitting and generally steamroll over everything even in low numbers and Archangels who are insanely fast, deal fixed amount of damage(making them immune to Curse), raise party's morale and are able to resurrect fallen troops respectively). Quite amusingly, in the first two games they were severly underpowered, to the point of being basically useless.

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** ''Elitist Faction'': The Dungeon. Low weekly growths and high unit/building costs, but its units are very powerful, especially its dragons which are typically the strongest creatures in the game.
*** Castle in Heroes III as well. While their ranged units are relatively fragile and don't do much later on, out of seven units in town, ''four of them'' can be considered the best on their level or at least in top 3(Halberdiers who have the biggest health in this tier and hit like a truck because no one will bother to take them out first; Royal Griffins who have a great weekly growth, are fast and have unlimited retaliations(in the game where every other unit has only one unless enhanced with magic); Crusaders who are tough, hard-hitting and generally steamroll over everything even in low numbers and Archangels who are insanely fast, deal fixed amount of damage (making them immune to Curse) and before the expansion was regarded as the strongest creature in the game, raise party's morale and are able to resurrect fallen troops respectively). Quite amusingly, in the first two games they were severely underpowered, to the point of being basically useless.

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* InfinityPlusOneSword: The third game (and the ''Heroes Chronicles'' spinoff campaigns) introduce three powerful swords that are treated as Infinity Plus One Swords in the story. The ''Armageddon's Blade'' expansion has the [[TitleDrop titular]] Armageddon's Blade, which in game gives nice boost to most of the wielder's stats and allows them cast Armageddon at expert level even if they couldn't use it normally, and it doesn't affect your own troops like it does normally, meaning you just us Armageddon ForMassiveDamage on the enemy without hurting your own army. ''The Shadow of Death'' has the Angelic Alliance, a combination of several other artifacts which combined give +21 to attack, defense, power, and knowledge, more than any other combo, allows for mixing of standard troops with neutrals without moral penalties, and casts prayer at the start of each battle. The last ''Heroes Chronicles'' campaign revolves around the Sword of Frost. The Armageddon's Blade and the Sword of Frost were so powerful that they ''destroyed the world'' when they struck each other.

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