I encountered Tallboys on Lady Boyle's Last Party, blink-jumped behind them and assassinated them, making the frame drop to the ground. I could not, however, find any body to hide left amongst the rubble. Also, as I dropped back down to the ground, I fell on a guardsman, and assassinated him. His body still remained, so I was very confused by this.
Which leads me to the question, do tallboys count as found bodies, and if so, how do you hide them?
UPDATE: Apparently the body would disappear with Shadow Kill, but then does the wreckage of the tall boy count for chaos if found?
Best Answer
I reckon the tallboy body (not including its frame/stilts/wreckage) will be treated like a normal body, and could be found if not hidden properly.
But the tallboy's frame/stilts/wreckage, based on my test, does NOT count as a 'dead body', even if the enemy found out all about it.
To test, I played Lady Boyle's Last Party, and finished that mission with '0 dead or unconscious bodies found' in the mission stats. I had Shadow Kill, and always killed stealthily so this will ensure that no bodies will be found at all.
I then loaded a savegame made near the mission exit. After that, I proceeded to kill a nearby tallboy stealthily, then hid and shot a crossbow bolt at the tallboy's wreckage, alerting a nearby guard to check out the wreckage:
After I proceeded to finish the mission, the missions stats still say that there are '0 dead or unconscious bodies found'.