Heroes of Might and Magic III: Fortress theme by Paul Romero

[@rsh2099]

When I play fortress, I can get stuck for a few minutes and do nothing but listen to this epic theme. The most epic theme among all fractions.

[@reijoseks5479]

Best song but weakest faction :(

[@ghaithking8891]

Not weakest... You just have to leverage your insane tempo with wyverns. Fastest tier 6 unit to get and easy to mass in hives. Ofc if game goes lategame and you sit in your biom you gonna get spanked

[@boroowchuck]

Actually best theme has Tower

[@xinlou6707]

@@reijoseks5479 Bruh have you played InferNO ?

[@RR-rx3xv]

​@@boroowchuck no, its not. Its this one

[@s1xto]

0:42 that build-up jesus christ...it blows everyone out of their seats

[@Biyeii]

Totally

[@grandaddyjesus]

lmaoo, Yup

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

When you cause an earthquake with a bottle of water.

[@Makar13]

@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4eacoJ3n9VjpdE

[@TheBlacktom]

Let me blow you out of your chairs once more kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYfdq3Z4hsdsf7s

[@mehmed93]

🦎 First part of the song is so mysterious like you’re lost in an endless swamp, trying to find a way out, but a sight of a serpent fly lures you in deeper ...then, after days of wandering through mud and marshes an ancient fortress suddenly appears in front of your eyes. (0:44) The music intensifies as you see huge wyverns in the distance flapping their wings, an army of lizards climbing down the trees, countless gnolls resting by the fire - ....A whole civilization hidden in the depth of the jungle filled with creatures you never even knew they existed. It makes you stare in awe and fear. There’s probably no way you could ever escape now... unless?? ...(1:32) You try to sneak out as fast as possible by crawling through the bushes....You almost make it out alive, but then you get that weird feeling something is watching you...(1:52) Finally you turn around, and the last thing you see is a giant bazilisk that looks straight into your eyes, leaving you petrified. You will remain forgotten in these marshes forever.

[@TsvetoslavGeorgiev]

Amazing words! You could get a job as a worldbuilder!

[@OljeiKhan]

As a musician i LOVE it when people immerse themselves in music. Some music takes talent to listen to.

[@minhcu8012]

I can imagine while listening to the music, such cool and thrill adventure! Awesome!

[@kbg-]

Very well said Marko. What I also love is that throughout the piece you can hear those quadruplets panned left and right and played on different instruments (1:21) is a good example. It sounds to me like there is some insects buzzing or some toads croaking or other wildlife all around you as you walk through the great marshes. This is such a well composed piece of music.

[@KKAAYYAABB]

Thanks for the trip. I can see that it's your inner child that imagined this adventure. Never let him die, that's where the magic comes 🙂

[@Xorrak]

That build up is amazing

[@dinpala]

do you have any special talents?

[@J4hk2]

[ORCHESTRA INTENSIFIES]

[@Soldado94aliasUnit594]

Expert Armory

[@IronSven]

"If you let Necropolis breathe, it will shit down your neck late game"

[@bogosscaskhey3341]

they dont breath btw

[@Drakyry]

@@J4hk2 (((ORCHESTRA)))

[@alexmelik4030]

My favorite and most played town. Marvelous bestiarium, swamps and beautiful music - love it. And defence-oriented, just my style.

[@Gaze73]

Mine too. I always Played Tazar for his bonkers defense. Late game a stack of 20 angels would kill like 40 gnolls, lol.

[@ГлубокаяПсихология]

And I always play Bron with his wasilisks at start. I love this town becaese gorgons, who have deth sight, and because dragonflis with big speed. Sorry for my english lvl.

[@uniquecorn491]

Defence-oriented XD Laughs in mass heist

[@9numbernine]

Bron + Earth Magic (aka Town Portal) is unbeatable! My favorite scenario to play

[@IvanAstra92]

My favourite town as well. 99% of the time i would definitely pick Alkin. Defence with Offence and Gorgon speciality is by far my favourite.

[@Mudamir]

WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY SWAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@thatdudewelove8498]

I was looking everywhere for this comment! Thank you!

[@Uberskull]

It's all ogre now...

[@JeanPierreLeChat]

This theme is awesome

[@osefenfait7847]

a shame the castle was not :/ i think i only played it times to times for the music

[@VonKrauzer]

Actually, Fortress is one of the strongest towns in HoMM3. They have a decent 1st lvl creature, upgraded version of lizard under bless can do wonders, having excellent health and defence and dmg range 2-5, they have the fastest lvl 3 creature, that helps you to cast spell first in most of battles, a sturdy 4th lvl crature, that can turn enemies to stone, so you can forgett about them for a few turns, THE MIGTHY MOOS that are nightmare for any lvl 7 creature, viverns are qute weak, but you can get them on day 1-2, and also enlarge their ranks from the Dragon Fly Hives, so their amount will grow immenesly, and you have mighty chaos hydras. If they attack more than one stack of enemies, they already deal more damage than almost any lvl 7 creature, and if there are 3 or more, they become the most efficient damage dealer in the game.

[@Terminator775]

I agree. The mighty gorgons are bread and butter for this town their power for lvl 5 is just.. Especially their passive right? Deathly gaze? I cant remember the name correctly but vs tough level opponents they are a MUST HAVE.

[@MerrillSnowden]

DEATH STARE, there's no way you forgot such a badass thing!

[@narxes]

Funny, I've always seen them as broken.

[@alexandergodfreykleinhans8059]

0:58 - POOOOOWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:O

[@carlitosburritos9635]

Alexander Godfrey Kleinhans I can literally hear doomfist😂😂

[@dumbit7365]

XD

[@plateau3262]

acutaly after 0;58 i always off this song xD

[@TEJR69]

I'm going to see an orchestra in about 3 hours and this song is gonna be played there, since my childhood until today, THIS, Gothic 1 theme and Morrowind main theme are songs I always wanted to hear live... and TODAY IS THE DAY, I'm worse then a kid day before Christmass... I'm shaking with exitement!!

[@heelioz7825]

How was it? 😀

[@TheBlacktom]

@@heelioz7825 I hope something like this kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYfdq3Z4hsdsf7s

[@Tommy-bq2zx]

where is the orchestra at????

[@TheBlacktom]

@@Tommy-bq2zx They are at the peak of their art.

[@martinxvidxb]

Heroes Orchestra, from Poland.

[@L0A0B]

The "FORTRESS» sound track is the BOMB! It starts out like a fidgety little trickle of mysteriousness, weak and willowy, but with a creeping hint of something that is being kept secret, hidden between the notes and then.............. It TRANSFORMS!! Into something monstrous, ever getting bigger and bigger filling with rage and power, breaking free form its chains and showing its true formidable strength, pure untamed savageness! And then, small, to eventually rise again

[@griswaldo3834]

Thats a pretty good way of putting it, thank you for sharing

[@Paal2005]

0:48 Paul Romero dropped the beat in a classical piece!

[@TheBlacktom]

I will just leave this here kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYfdq3Z4hsdsf7s

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

0:42 When you cause an earthquake by throwing a bottle of water.

[@Soddarkryder]

I love how in HoMM 3 all of the monster-like creatures have mean faces in their portraits. It's like: "23 minotaurs >:o", "15 lizardmen D:", "144 imps >:D"

[@eryseayliid1535]

"22 dragonflies D8" :DDDDD

[@J4hk2]

@@eryseayliid1535 \/ ~~~~8< /\

[@angrydoggo7160]

"57 Cyclops Kings DO"

[@Aenygma_]

And then you have heroes like Gelu: o_o

[@np96vh]

dat music, the moment when you randomly discovered a fortress inside a swamp.

[@fighter2013pl]

You know what makes this game so special compared to every other heroes game? The bestiary. Seriously, every single unit is so well aesthetically designed with so many little details. I mean look at the chaos hydra for example; she has five heads and they're all different! Now look at the Hydra from H4 or H5 and what do you see? A generic multi-headed snake with legs? Yep. Heroes 3 FTW.

[@Terminator775]

Cannot agree with you more. Its that attention to details that matters and is highly appreciated. It's sad that the series went downhill from HOMM3 but on the other hand it is so awesome we had this...

[@johnsmith8055]

Not only all units are detailed, they have somewhat of a similar feel to them. It's in the aesthetics, dood.

[@bademusoctavianjuvenal2702]

Dont forget half of them are from greek mythology, a mythology we all know well.

[@KeyleeTamirian]

I'm tired of people dissing H5... Well, i'm just Russian, and H5 was developed by Russian FANS of H3, and H5 was my first Heroes game... And i just love the world and setting of H5.

[@KeyleeTamirian]

Ob 1, dude, this won't change a fact that H5 is my childhood. And thanks to H5 i played Heroes Collection with all games from to 4.

[@paweradzikowski3777]

The fact that Paul Anthony Romero had written all that music on the computer and keyboard just blows my mind. But yeah, clearly can hear inspiration from Prokofiev, Chopin... :) A great taste and a great talent!

[@TheBlacktom]

And he enjoys playing it to this day kzbin.info7VzzCBQb9IY?feature=share&t=2808

[@Rottensparrow]

I can hear inspiration from Wojciech Kilar in Necropolis theme

[@alrogast]

Paul Romero is truly one of the most talented composers in the entire gaming industry. Such bright, memorable music that gives goosebumps, emphasizes the environment, the context. You still need to look for such music, there are very few places where you will find such music. And the coolest thing is that games usually have 1-3 cool soundtracks (with the exception of The Witcher 3, or the new BG3), and Heroes 3, thanks to Paul, consists of almost 100% cool soundtracks, every city, every battle, every biome Google Translate rus->eng, sorry for mistakes

[@ShadowFerretofD00m]

Fortress! Come back to Heroes! Rampart misses you! Dungeon misses you! Even Stronghold misses you! *Cut to Crag Hack and Yog throwing a party*

[@gorthaur3800]

Yes!

[@TheRoflbbq]

Maybe if Ubisoft gives the franchise to someone who actually cares about it they might make a comeback.

[@Azuressunset]

@@TheRoflbbq Ubisoft seems fine making homm mobile games in China so until they finally go broke we wont get the series back

[@turquoisenomad8418]

Heroes has been dead a long time as far as I’m concerned.

[@9juju6]

1:09 That's when I imagine a Chaos Hydra roaring all of its heads in victory while standing on a mountain of Pikemen corpses.

[@masters3104]

"What a beautiful Duwang! (chew) There must be no other place as pretty as this town. This feels like a picnic."

[@sharkmug1583]

not sure why you referenced JoJo but I have surely thought how the buildup and culmination are similar to the Kira's theme

[@Orcbanger]

starts relatively unsuspecting, but whenever you stayed on the city display for more than 45 sec you were gonna get hit by some epic music

[@Laurent-lm5uv]

La plus forte des races et la plus belle des musiques :)

[@Imiface]

The best soundtrack of the game.

[@fikujez]

The Grail is the thing floating right next to Hydra Pond. It's called Carnivorous Plant, apart from the usual bonuses it gives +10 to attack & defense while defending the castle.

[@januszb166]

❤

[@shimmymod]

Hugely underrated town.

[@9numbernine]

Not underrated.

[@M.J.D.R]

Gas Panic yeah, it’s just weak

[@indrickboreale7381]

Gorgons melt every 7 tier unit

[@sinistra7450]

@@M.J.D.R Not weak, a lot of you just don't know how to play it. =D

[@KajuTheRudeMonke]

@@sinistra7450 cope

[@eltelfo]

my favorite music from homm3

[@rafanir8949]

My favorite town and theme.

[@NeverMindPL]

0:47 best moment ... so epic it's my favorit theme ;)

[@TheBlacktom]

Do you go to concerts though? kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJfHpKlqmbN8itk

[@eZU4nQsWN9pAGsU38aHj]

awesome town! and the best theme

[@perki3341]

Absolutely magical theme!

[@RockNow91]

The music is really beautiful to Heroes 3. Adds a lot to the general gaming experience!

[@UARealtek]

Idk why but I'm returning to this each time I'm getting drunk. Just to listen to how good this theme is

[@TheBlacktom]

What do you listen to when not drunk?

[@SamppaZ]

And rampart theme is for saturday mornings

[@kminrzymski]

While lost at the great swamp, wandering among the ageless trees with their root's entangled under the cover of mud and water, you spot a dragonfly, hovering over huge flower. Suddenly it turns around, looking in your direction. It spots you and dashes away into the swamp. Where is it now? Have you lost it? You start to listen, trying not to make any noise. And you hear it, building up... Low pitched sound, that buzz... It's getting louder and louder, until it surrounds you and turns into a wave of dragonlies appearing from among the trees, flying past you, pushing you, and making you run with the rest of their hive. Suddenly few of them gather around you and pick you up off the ground, carrying you over the muddy swampland, between the trees, mushrooms and flowers, into the depths of the bog. While flying, you catch the glimpse of a structure, it's walls high and powerful, as tall as the tallest trees. You're carried over bridges binding the towers of trees together, passing by men with heads of dogs and lizards as they go about their business as if nothing really happened. You fly over ponds with monstrous creatures snapping their jaws at each other, praying the hive wouldn't drop you down there. And as suddenly as it started, your journey comes to and end. Dragonflies leave you at the edge of the swamp, in the middle of the road and disperse. Was it all a dream?

[@msfritz9158]

*POWERFUL*

[@plancheman1]

I haven't played this game in a long time, but my younger brother and my dad play still. This is my favorite team, I'd skip week after week and stay in the fortress to amass a mighty army. When the hydras came near, they would vanquish every creature in striking distance! The memories!

[@go0fer]

such an amazing music... one of the greatest tracks from one of the greatest games of all time

[@ersia87]

I've never been a huge Fortress-player. I've always heard the semi-lame intro to the theme. But then I let it linger for a bit while I did other stuff, and MY GOD! It's brilliant!!

[@ciuyr2510]

I used to enter their towns just to hear the theme....

[@Igorjexa]

The culmination is awesome

[@kherossilverlight8400]

0:45 *YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL TALENT?*

[@kroof4322]

one of the 3 best themes in this game :D love it

[@KaszaMuna447]

Ah, my favourite town. It lacks some speed but is so fun to play!

[@Jakobersdal]

Absolute banger

[@44HAZE44]

best game - best soundtracks

[@xlnt2new]

The best lineup imnsho : ) Great 1st lvl dmg dealer (2-3 dmg) Great 2nd lvl tank (attracts stupid ai) Great speed bumper, debuffer at lvl 3 Nice crowd control at lvl 4 Greatest dmg dealer at lvl 5 Stackable, colectable at lvl 6 and the best lvl 7 AoE dmg dealer + one of the best hero types - the beastmaster!

[@unclebasil3489]

Proud to leave the 1000th like. Amazing OST, amazing game.

[@dusangrigorijevic1529]

21 people die under the terrible gaze of the mighty gorgons

[@66ALDARIS]

This music is too epic for a faction living in the swamps

[@woppitywippity3464]

"Sir Fortress castle seems weak" "Let's give 'em the sickest song then"

[@amecarethqc6652]

hm... I don't know if you guys saw, but in every heroes 3 theme this guy made, he's got that dungeon city with him.

[@urzytkownikYT]

most epic music in the world...

[@orsen17]

love this piece!!!

[@abatabatov4109]

13 лет капец

[@AMasondude]

I literally cry everytime I hear this soundtrack, tears of immense joy

[@wastehazey6468]

The theme is so perfectly fitting for Fortress.

[@theBasho]

okay, seriously, the music in homm3 is so grandiously and masterly composed that for a long period of time I personally thought they just borrowed it from master composers of romanticism (something Grieg could have done, similar to In the Hall of the Mountain King), just like they did it in a number of other games, not necessarily of the same genre. It simply sounded too familiar, too good to be composed by someone for the puposes of the game, something I heard in my elementary in music class.

[@hailsatyr]

I want this to play at my funeral

[@oliverz6581]

0:58 is when you finally upgrade your gorgons and you know youre gunna wreck shit

[@swag0valord0fsomalia]

My favourite part is the last note. Reminds me of when you wanna be the last person clapping in assembly

[@ArGxMAXI]

0:01 - "Que lindo es ir caminando por la noche en Latinoamérica" 0:47 - "Eh ameo tené una moneda?"

[@WhitefoxSpace]

Guys, I dont know about any of you, but if you listen to the Shooting Star Theme from the Stardust Movie (2007) at 0:52, and listen to this Fortress Theme, 0:47 - it is insanely similar, the inspiration I think was clear?

[@livedandletdie]

Bron, is an awesome hero.

[@Meibu1]

That's it, going to play a large map against 6 insane computers, with 0 resources as Tazar, wish me luck!

[@MrFamasPL]

0:48 EPIC

[@kacperx66]

I mean..Castle and Rampart are my favourite factions when it come to gameplay. But damn....Citdel's sountrack is the best, hands down.

[@Olzme]

0:43 when you're playing against your buddy in hotseat and he casts anti-magic on his mighty gorgons.

[@truman_hash]

I miss this town

[@gimbson4539]

Przezajebiste

[@robertmiles1603]

0:47 *water bottle perfectly lands on table, causing a giant earthquake*

[@mickeymouse2720]

My favourite theme of HoMM3.

[@trilobita10]

Wow... that's exactly what I have in mind.

[@namnidah]

my favorite one

[@Aranimda]

When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, Son, the strongest castle in all of Erathia.

[@MightyAlien1221]

But i dont want any of that.

[@Crack019]

This theme and Stronghold theme, the best music themes of the game. The two bands have the best theme music and the worst strengh army ;( Really awesome

[@lillyaugeasmr4163]

Exactly

[@fieryapple7020]

I always imagine a moth flying around the fire and burning in the end when I was listening to this

[@TibianBotter]

the best!!!

[@kozacki9921]

I hated this faction, but this soundtrack is my favourite from this game.

[@Stimpackswe]

Fortress, Tower and Necropolis are probably my favorite factions.

[@unconscious7219]

Stimpackswe Sandro and his 10k skeletons

[@Maxoule22]

Not enough magic in this faction to be competitive

[@biggusdickus2166]

the melee units are insanely good but the fliers and range unit are such trash

[@msfritz9158]

Actually, if you get lots of Knowledge and Expert skills like Intelligence, Mysticism, and any kind of magic (Air is the best option) as a Fortress character, the magic is actually useful. I once had nearly 100 mana points with a Beastmaster.

[@KimKast]

Still my dragons die under the terrible gaze of the Mighty Gorgon

[@wastehazey6468]

0:47 UNLEASH THE HYDRA!

[@Rodmusset]

My favorite faction back then, still felt they were a bit weak, but it fascinated me too much to pick another one

[@ezechiel194]

The best thing of this town and composted music is, that i want to be there. You want to visit gorgon lair and pay gold for recruit mighty gorgons to army, train with lizarmens archery and also sit at tavern and heard rumors etc. That is the wonderfull zhing of this town.

[@toxicitzi]

you gotta hand it to this faction, it has dragon flies, mighty gorgons, wyvewyrms and also hydras :) also one of the best theme song. love this one and stronghold too

[@sepisoad]

HELL YEAH

[@VladimirEmelyanov]

0:45 AMAZING

[@DonPrecedens]

@KostjaMRH thanks for reply. looks like i was wrong, should not be so sonfident when posting. we are learning something new all the time :)

[@imfromtambunan]

Nothing gets passed the Styg

[@teavirus]

I am still proud of my giant dragonflies and my Gorgons.

[@张晟之-n3t]

Dragon flies buzzed in the grass at the waist, giant lizards spat letters at the mouth of the cave, lizard bowers lurked in dense branches, nine snakes in potentially green pool water, watching the intruder, the everglades of Mudland, never gentle.

[@ShinTheDerg]

Hehe, exactly the feeling of this song. ^^

[@syok1107]

Those mighty gorgons though!

[@MiniDeco2]

Hmm...When I open the game, the screen becomes black and when I try to use CRTL + ALT + DELETE nothing happens and I have to pull the computer cable out. Does anyone know how to fix the problem and make the game work correct?

[@Ddarth_sidious]

*"Do YoU hAvE AnY SpEciAL TaLeNtS?"*

[@foxbelzewood9348]

Tazar's hymn.

[@koteban]

When you have 3 towns of this kind - you get more troops than you can buy. Even more, storming strongholds is difficult in fact, while reinforcing them with fresh units is much easier.

[@riverman2062]

0:45 its just...that

[@EBTcraft15]

At first i hated them too but in time you learn to like them since you have to use them at full potential to win! Their theme song on the other hand is great and cinematical with the town and it's swampy theme!

[@aaoppe]

Never liked this race, but their town had the best music, hands down.

[@Pentoxid]

I had a chance 1 or 2 weeks ago to try Wyvern Monarch and while I saw them "poisoning" everybody, I never felt the difference in the long run. I thought it kinda life degen every turn. Did you know that it is the sister-skill of the Ghost Dragon's "Aging" skill? I wonder if such skill are activating on a Black Dragon for example. I mean the skill didn't come from the hero as spell, but from a creature. Anyone knows?

[@InferiorG]

My god those Gorgons are so damn tough

[@kelmorian178]

Bron the Beastmaster. Yeah, he's unique since he's actually the only hero capable of starting with 4th level units to engage the enemy. And with Beastmaster 4 DEF skill rate and Basilisk thick hide AND petrify. How can anyone say no to him in Day 1 of the game?