Is this game anything like Heroes of Might and MAgic?

[lostn]

How do you recruit troops? Do you go into a castle and buy them, ala HOMM?

The graphics engine used and perspective does not look very RPG-like. It looks like it was built as an RTS or TBS. KB's models have been designed to be viewed from a zoomed out perspective, which you would only see in a hack n slash (diablo-esque) RPG, rather than an ordinary RPG. This is interesting. To someone who doesn't know anything about the game, looking at the screenshots, they would mistake it for a strategy game, or more precisely, a HOMM clone. Especially so, if the hero can only cast spells and use abilities, but not attack or be attacked in combat.

You guys should have been given the rights to HOMM5 rather than Nival.