Talk:Clockwork Soldiers/@comment-16533050-20180426190251/@comment-26199726-20180426191933

Yes, it still has to be well-aimed - in my experience, it has to hit somewhere between the head and torso, so both the initial explosion and the fragments spreading outward from it hit the head mechanism and destroy it completely, with not even a stump remaining.

Just hitting the head or torso didn't work for me - in either case, the clockwork was badly damaged or even "blinded" because of decapitation, but not destroyed.

And before anyone asks, I tried replicating that well-aimed hit at the exact same spot several times without the upgrade - unsuccessfully.

But it's not an exact science, and might be more luck than anything (with the upgrade - it seems without it, luck won't help).