For this assignment, type an essay two pages about Heroes of Might and Magic III music. Heroes of Might and Magic III (or simply HOMM III) is a turn-based strategy game developed by Jon Van Caneghem through New World Computing originally released for Microsoft Windows by the 3DO Company in 1999. Its ports to several computer and console systems followed in 1999-2000. HOMM III was released to universal acclaim and was praised by critics. The gameplay is very similar to its predecessors in that the player controls a number of heroes that command an army of creatures inspired by myth and legend. The gameplay is divided into two parts, tactical overland exploration and a turn-based combat system. The player creates an army by spending resources at one of the eight town types in the game. The hero progresses in experience by engaging in combat with enemy heroes and monsters. The conditions for victory vary depending on the map, including conquest of all enemies and towns, collection of a certain amount of a resource, or finding the grail artifact. Two official expansion packs were released for Heroes III. The first of these expansions, Armageddon's Blade, introduced a ninth town alignment, the Conflux; a random scenario generator, a variety of new creatures, heroes, and structures; and six new playable campaigns. The second expansion, The Shadow of Death, was a stand-alone expansion that included Restoration of Erathia and added seven new playable campaigns and a variety of new artifacts, including Combination Artifacts. Combination Artifacts were extremely powerful items assembled by collecting a specific set of lesser artifacts. Here is the list of playable Towns in HOMM 3: 1. The Castle is predominantly "human", deploying the forces using weapons of steel and build structures of stone. The creatures that can be hired in the Castle, in ascending order of level, are pikemen, archers, griffins, swordsmen, monks, cavalry, and angels. 2. The Tower is associated with wizards and their magical servants, constructs, and allies. The Tower's creatures are gremlins, stone gargoyles, stone golems, magi, genies, nagas, and giants. 3. The Rampart draws on nature-affiliated creatures and those who defend them. The Rampart's units are centaurs, dwarves, wood elves, pegasi, dendroid guards, unicorns, and green dragons. 4. The Inferno is a dark and brooding castle reminscient of classical depictions of hell. The Inferno's creatures are imps, gogs, hellhounds, demons, pit fiends, efreeti and devils. 5. The Necropolis is a ghost town of the undead. All creatures in the Necropolis are undead, which makes them immune to a variety of spells and effects, such as poison, morale, death waves, or any mind-affecting spells. The creatures in the Necropolis are skeletons, walking dead, wights, vampires, liches, black knights, and bone dragons. 6. The Dungeon houses bizarre creatures that prefer to live underground. The creatures in a Dungeon are troglodytes, harpies, beholders, medusae, minotaurs, manticores, and red dragons. 7. The Strongholds are populated with various brutish creatures associated with barbarism and raiding. The Stronghold's creatures are goblins, wolf riders, orcs, ogres, rocs, cyclopes, and behemoths. 8. The Fortress offers hardy creatures bred in the marshes and contain numerous reptilian creatures. The Fortress creatures are gnolls, lizardmen, serpent flies, basilisks, gorgons, wyverns, and hydras. 9. The expansion town, Conflux, is associated with predominantly elemental creatures. The Conflux creatures are the pixie, air elemental, water elemental, fire elemental, earth elemental, psychic elemental, and firebird. Here is a video with music themes and visuals for all nine HOMM III towns: Pick two of your favorite towns, and type a essay about their music themes. How well does the music fit its town and why? Talk about specific music elements you recognize, such as: tempo (slow/medium/fast), dynamics (loudness), instrumentation (which instruments do you recognize?); how does the music reflect