Garrote rounds off the basic 2 strength no-frills breakers in a rather disappointing manner. In terms of efficiency Garrote is on par with it’s brethren Corroder and Gordian Blade. But that efficiency is some what negated when first installed. At 7 credits you might not able use it once installed or even afford to install it when you need to. Of course they are ways of lowering this cost. Initially, though, Pipeline may be a better choice as a Killer.

The main issue with Garrote, and what makes it overpriced, is the cost in memory. For the 2 memory you would expect some kind of additional ability. Gordian Blade keeps it’s strength for the remainder of the run for a credit at a time, potentially saving money, for an install cost of 4 credits and 1 memory, comparably underpriced next to Garrote. On a more direct Killer comparison Pipeline has the same strength ability but for 2 credits a go, making it slightly fairer in pricing at 3 credits and 1 memory. An ability like this on Garrote may warrant the extra memory cost. I have a suspicion that during development there may have been an ability that was found to be overpowered, something in line with the flavour text, such as ‘de-rez the encountered ice if all subroutines are broken and Garrote’s strength exceeds the ice’s strength by X, X being the strength of the ice.’

After saying all of the above, by no means is Garrote a bad Killer, within faction it pretty much comes out on top and supplemented by Faerie you can face-check potential sentries safely whilst building the money to install, but there will be other killers that will better suit your build.

Edge of World is a beautifully thought-out asset that can have a huge impact on a game. However, it can require some time to set-up and can often be difficult to pull off. But when it does it is highly rewarding.

The key to using Edge of World efficiently is installing it behind as much ICE as you can. Rather than trying to build a server specifically for Edge of World I find it best to install it in a server that has just been freed up with a couple of pieces of ICE already protecting it. And thats where the beauty of this asset come from. The ICE just has to be there, rezzed or not it doesn’t matter. There are few things more satisfying than watching a Runner agonizing over wether to access or not after running a three deep server, you not rezzing any of it even though you have the credits. That satisfaction made all the more sweeter when they do access. Another asset that epitomizes the Jinteki mind games.

Of course this isn’t going to happen all the time and like most assets Edge of World has it’s pitfalls. Without the option to advance, the longer it is sat the table untouched, the less likely it is to be run on and unrezzed assets aren’t much of a concern. A possible workaround for this is to use Tennin Institute: The Secrets Within to try and work the bluff. That’s not to say Edge of World is now taking up space. As an example you can use it as protection for a Shell Corporation creating another hard decision for the Runner. Let you amass a wealth of credits or risk hitting what it is upgrading.

Along with this you are going to have manage your econ correctly. As soon as Edge of World is installed you are going to need to keep three credits in reserve. This is a fair costing considering that Edge of World can deliver a crippling amount of brain damage in a single blow. I would gladly pay the three credits for a single point of brain damage for the permanent effect it has.

The advantage of using Project Junebug, over other ambushes such as Cerebral Overwriter and even Snare!, is the fact that it takes a solitary credit to fire it's ability. For the same amount of credits it takes to use Snare!, Project Junebug will cause double the net damage, enough to flatline a fully gripped runner. In metas seeing heavy Account Siphon and/or Vamp usage, and where the Runner won't run on remotes until the Corp has no credits, there nothing more frustrating the carefully laying out several traps only to not have the credits to use them. However, install Project Junebug behind a Pop-up Window and it doesn't matter that the Runner just Vamped your credits away. It is this low cost to potentially high damage that helps makes Project Junebug as dangerous as it is.