Warlords: Battlecry III is the latest in the popular Battlecry franchise, which combines the role-playing game with the real-time strategy game to create the RPS or role-playing strategy game. This game adds five new races to the Battlecry universe, increasing the total number of playable races to sixteen. The new races come in the form of the Plaguelords, the dinosaur like Ssrathi and the Swarm. The human race has also been split in two halves to provide the Knights and the Empire. The game is structured like a real-time strategy title with tech trees, resource mining and troop creation, but adds a role-playing element in the shape of a hero who leads the troops and can be levelled up to improve his stats.