User blog comment:ForeignAgent/A new hope?/@comment-26018514-20181022185238/@comment-26018514-20181023190319

^ He would have been in the blast radius and effected by the concussive wave, but like SYUTK I think it was the fact they'd be concussed with enemies and pointy objects present that the mook was concerned about, not that they'd be insta-killed out of hand