Why they chose to do it while all strategy gamers are busy playing the Heroes V demo is a mystery, but Strategy First just announced a third game for the Disciples franchise. The development of the game started during Summer 2005 in a Russian development firm called Akella in collaboration with .Dat Company.

The game will remain turn-based, but "units will move on the battlefield using an improved initiative timer-based system. At the strategic level, unit turns will also be affected with an initiative factor that will dictate turns at the unit level and not at the Race level. This means increased fluidity in multiplayer and less downtime even in single player." And while in Disciples II magic could only be used on the strategic map (our own adventure map), Lords will now be able to cast spells on the battlefield as well. It would have been funny if Heroes had gone the opposite way. There is no expected release date for D3, but visit GameSpot to view some pretty visuals.