Dishonored

This is the easiest method to obtain Manipulator Achievement

Mission 3 : House Of Pleasures

step 1 : Head to Dunnwall Whiskey Distillery

step 2 : Knockout 4 thugs

step 3 : Start lining up the thugs in a row

step 4 : Making your friends into enemies. To do this get behind a thug and try to knock him out. Make sure not to hold RB too long. When he headbutts you run back to the unconscious thugs.

step 5 : Run around the unconscious thugs until the enemies start spitting flames at you. this will kill the unconscious thugs instantly.

You, like me, may have tried the method in the video posted by isaacballs. You, like me, probably grew frustrated wondering how that sixth guard triggered the explosion. I ran around like a maniac for at least 20 minutes trying to get said explosion. No luck.

Here's what I did that finally worked. I was on the last mission, 09 - The Light at the End. I used the platform in front of the wall of light to the right (the one without the turret) for my unconscious body stack.

In this area there are plenty of guards and several whale oil containers. There are at least two containers outside (by the arc pylon) and several inside (via blink and the drain in the whale - if you are going for "lights out", you will need to enter this area anyways).

Now get crafty and stack your five bodies. Heed the other advice to do this, I choked most my guys, but I stopped after 5. I made my stack in front of the stairs that lead down tot he water. I chose to leave the one guard, down by the water (way to the right of the platform/wall). This is the guy I need for the explosion.

Save now. You can use this stack for this achievement and the Tempest achievement.

For this achievement I held the whale oil container, got the guard to chase me, and as he came up the stairs I stood on top of my body pile with whale oil container in hand. The guard shot me, whale oil blew up, and the achievement unlocked. I managed to survive without a problem.

For Tempest, I put the whale oil container on top of the stack and when the guard came up the stairs and was close to the stack I shot the container. Boom, six down in under one second.

Two notes: This is a good mission for this as it seems all guards carry guns. Also, I may have had an extra whale oil container or two on the stack, in addition to the one I was carrying. That's why it's a good idea to save before trying to get the guard to shoot at you.

I'm not sure, but I think I just got this naturally. I had a guard try to shoot me, and I placed myself with another guard between the two of us. He shot his buddy in the back and the achievement popped. I'm positive this has happened multiple times in my playthrough, so it seems they accumulate. So five different guards can accidentally shoot someone trying to attack you and they count towards the total.

I got this achievement unintentionally. Using collected runes, I purchased the swarm skill (the one where you spawn rats). FWIW, I actually upgraded to level 2 of the skill. When you spawn rats around a group of 2 or 3 guards, they tend to pull out their guns and shoot at the swarm. In the havoc, they sometimes mistakenly shoot each other. Do this enough times and the achievement should pop.

I did it on the Loyalists Level. I collected 5 unconscious guards from the pub, and piled them up by the door in the corner of the pub on the first floor. I grabbed a bottle of whale oil from Pierro's Workshop and put that on the pile just to be sure. When the pile of 5 with the whale oil was made, I stood up, and opened the door. The tall-boy that was outside the door shot an incendiary bolt at me, lit the whale oil tank, and blew up his buddies.

There's a cheap and easy way to get your enemies to kill five of their own, and it doesn't require planning or any elaborate set-ups... Just maybe a little guilt.

Start by choking an enemy into unconsciousness, pressing the RB when you're sneaking up behind him. Then, hold X to pick him up and carry him on your shoulder. If you're spotted by another enemy that has a firearm, there's a very high likelihood that their bullets will hit your "meat shield" instead of you, killing the unconscious person you're carrying.

Many solutions out there but they all are a bit complicated

If you're having trouble, I suggest loading the loyalists. You will need sleep darts (upgraded ones may be a plus).

Start the mission and head outside; tranquilize the soldiers on foot and stand next to them; the tallboys will start bombarding you and kill the sleeping guards. Easy cheevo pop .

Super easy can be done on the first mission in the game where you have to kill the overseer. After you saved *spoiler* from the trap inside the compound you will see alot more of the Overseer type enemies that throw grenades a very easy way to get the 5 kills required is to use sleep darts to down 5 enemies after which you leave 1 overseer alive. Pick up one of the put to sleep guards and dance around the overseer after he throws a grenade chuck the guard in the grenade and do this 5 more times and chievo popped

I found a WAY easier (and more fun) way to get this............on mission 3 : House Of Pleasures, head to Dunnwall Whiskey Distillery

Since Slackjaw wants to see you, all thugs in that area are non-hostile...........the fun part is........the weepers in the two cages aren't!!!!!

...and this is where it gets fun....first you need the Distillery Reserve Key, this is located right when you enter the main building turn hard right...straight in front of you, turn the red "wheel", it opens the door to the right of "said wheel"....you either need to slide under the door, or blink before it closes, raid all the goodies (don't forget the key), then use the crates to exit above and to the right of the door.......

1st cage: exit the distillery, and head to the right, you will see 3 weepers in a cage which also has a bone charm (sweet!), kite them out of the cage and the thugs will kill them for you....that takes care of 3/5

2nd cage:I don't know if it matters if you talked to Slackjaw or not, but when it popped for me, I didn't see him yet, but.......there is another cage in the basement area containing (I think 4) more weepers, open cage, draw aggro, and let the thugs kill them....boom cheevo popped!!!

(since the weepers are "former thugs", I guess it still counts as killing their own allies)

Hope this works for you....happy hunting!!!!