Maybe you won't believe, but I played this game more than 20 000 hours back then when it wasn't on Steam. This was my first CD (my friend asked and broke it that si what I heard T_T) on my first PC (2004). In 2004-2005 when I was with my classmates in crafting lesson, I asked my classmate make a wooden heart (that is what we were doing) because I couldn't make it by myself, so then I coloured it and wrote "Warlords Battlecry 3" on it. And since then I played this game non-stop. I finished game infinite times, I was the first one who made XP boost map, I made tons of campaign and mission maps for my friends. I even created Van Hellsing map on Warlords Battlecry 1. I usually played as Ssrathi assassin. Assassin was best class for surviving (in Warlords Battlecry 1 it was Undead with his vampirism and attack speed it was impossible to kill him). Only one who could fight assassin was paladin (for his reviving and healing spells). But the minus of this game was that the towers were getting stronger with every hero level. Several times I wanted to get rights for this game, because it was already dead game and I wanted to brought to Steam, but unfortunately, there were a lot of problmes that I had must solve. Despite of its year this game was balanced, even more than Warcraft 3. And that is one of the reasons why I think it is unfair to make cybersport games due to their companies. This game brought us great story, epic OSTs, shedloads of spells, skills and strategy game mechanics, and more importantly as I know the first game that brought MMO RPG thing, infinite hero level gaining, to us. Warlords Battlecry 3 was the legend and is still the best game and the best RTS game for me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WT1WX0H0oQ

P.S. I had got goosebumps right now when I launched it <3 <3 <3