This sounds like someone took the best parts of Heroes of Might and Magic nostalgia and recorded it with a live ensemble. Songs of Conquest nails that turn-based strategy atmosphere with folk-influenced orchestration that actually feels rooted in its world.
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"Fields of Arleon" has this warm, pastoral quality with real strings that makes you want to just sit on the map screen. "The Bones of Suvwl'ah" shifts into something darker and more percussive, all rattling drums and low chanting.
Then "Misty Woods of the Faey" goes ethereal with these floating vocal layers. Each faction genuinely sounds different. The variety across biomes and cultures here is seriously impressive. If you grew up on HoMM3 and want that same feeling with modern production, this is your soundtrack.