Why Chew Toy 3 is so Popular

Chew Toy 3 remains, and probably will remain, the most-played map in WinBolo. A few theories surround why this may be the case.

One, think about what players were playing when you were brought into the IRC community. "East map chew" or "Minbot map chew" were some of the most commonly uttered phrases in #winbolo. Chances are, if you saw someone doing this and played on maps that someone else created, you'd also do the same once you became accustomed to mapping maps. Insufficient knowledge of the map library or a player's specialization in one map could also attribute to this.

Another and more likely reason is that Chew Toy 3 is easy and fun to play while also offering a wide range of deployable tactics. Chew Toy 3 leaves options open during almost any stage of the game to either the defensive or offensive-minded player.

For instance, at the start you can..
1) Vulture and spike
2) Take a quick pill from your quad and hyper-spike
3) Rape bases (not so easily accomplished in 1.13 compared to 1.08)

When things start to get going more options become available...
1) Set up a pillwall and war to the death
2) Flank that pillwall due to the expansive space available on CT3
3) Back-spike in enemy territory
4) Mine your enemy's region

To finish off your opponent...
1) Deforest
2) Mine your enemy's region some more
3) Back-spike their only safe-zone of retreat

I'm sure there's many more tactical ways to play Chew Toy 3 but it still holds true that it's a great map to play because of how many ways you can play and end the game on this map.

It's also a favorite of mine because i'm going to beat LRL and Senzuri on it in the tourny :)

*ren chuckles

Chew Toy 3 is kind of like booze in college. You try it and at first it's kinda fun, but eventually it makes you puke your guts out.

Kax wrote:

Chew Toy 3 is kind of like booze in college. You try it and at first it's kinda fun, but eventually it makes you puke your guts out.

Bleh!!

we play tooo much chew toy 3! We should try other maps! all the time! Are all you ppl scared of playing new maps that might have *GASP* different statagies and that you might loose on?

MaddMaxx, you totally missed my point (not surprising at all). Chew Toy 3 is fun to play because just about any strategy there is out there can be applied during a matchup on this map.

Your comment would be relevant to a map of, say, Jonnywar caliber: it 95% of the time results in a pillwar. Your comment would also be directed at a player who loves Jonnywar, say, Sethos perhaps.

I have to agree with Madd Maxx here, although Chew Toy 3 offers a good selection of strategies, I feel it is becoming so over-used. There is no variety anymore as you usually find the same players using the same tactics and ending in the same results. Maybe it's time people tried some different maps, just for a bit of a change. Chew Toy is not the be all and end all of WinBolo and life beyond it isn't the horrible, post apocolyptic (poor spelling) world a lot of people believe it to be.

If however, people are simply still playing this map for fun then disregard all that I said in the above paragraph and enjoy the toy of chewing.

Ess-K mixed around reads sEKs which sounds a bit like Sex, nice :)Ess-K :twisted: