Thunderbird is an operative that has unique setap. Powerful equipment is combined with an endless health replenishment to her and her team. More details below.

Main weapone:
1) Spear .308

Assault Rifle (Only in defense!), low rate of fire,massive damage and no recoil. The main choice for both roamers and supporters.
Recommended attachments:Flame hider/Muzzle brake, straight handle, no laser sight*, aim of your choice.
*Laser sight reduces dispersion from the hip, theoretically it helps to kill opponents more accurately when entering the sight, but you have to constantly keep in mind that the laser reveals your position,because of that i don't use it.

2) SPAS-15

A semi-automatic shotgun,its almost indistinguishable among others shotguns. I advise you to take it if you want to play from position at the close range.
Recommended attachments: Laser sight, aim: any, as an option, you can play without a it for more space to see while aiming.

Secondary weapone:
1) Bearing 9

Pocket SMG with a high rate of fire, the recoil is hard, but the pattern is remembered quickly (like smg-11). The base choice for secondary weapone even if recoil seems uncontrolable at first.
Recommended attachments: Flame hider, sight of your choice, laser sight at will (I advise you not to use it).

2) Q-929

The pistol is good, with high damage, but it is useless in comparing with Bearing 9, which is superior in all aspects.
Recommended attachments: Muzzle brake/Silencer (you can use a silencer for hidden destroy of enemy gadgets), laser sight is not reccomended.

Short summary: There are 2 builds: spear+bearing (universal) for any style of play, spas+bearing for close-mid range play.

1) С4

Remote explosives,the strongest additional gadget of defenders. Usable for killing, lastly in cases for rotations.
Use:
•Standard throw: by learning the throw path of the c4, you will be able to throw it into difficult places to shoot for standard weapons.

•Throw by mark / information / listening: approximately imagine where the opponent's location and explode him.

•Throw against the shield users: c4 will kill only from behind, if enemy takes the impact from explosion by shield, it'll expose his unprotected parts of the body.

•A throw to interrupt planting: on many maps there are places where the deactivator is most likely to be placed. Learn to throw c4 in such default places.

•Rotation. If you need to quickly return from the roam, or during the preparation phase, no one's able to do a rotation. C4 is inefficient for such uses, and you better take impacts.

2) Impacts

I recommend taking impacts instead of c4 for team tactics, for example, an impact trick.

•Rotation. The main use of impacts.

•Run Outs.Impacts allow you to quickly break the barricade / mine / air jab, which are protects attackers from run outs.

•Impact-trick. In some places, will allow you to disrupt breaching.

•Throw against the shields operatives. By throwing impact in shield, you're exposing the unprotected parts of the body.

Kóna medical station: heals any operative on 30 hp, after which it takes 35 seconds to recharge. After entering the down state operative can crawl to Kóna and revive himself.
How to use this gadget?
•There are 3 Kónas available, they should be placed as protected as possible from the attack team. Thus, we put them deep into planting sites, where the last frontier of the defenders are. Alternatively, you can bet on main positions if you are confident that you will be able to hold them (You should hold out as long as possible).

Turquoise Kóna icons are suggested installation points when protecting cctv.
•Playing from the roam,1 Kóna can be taken with you. In a situation where you have little HP left, you will be able to instantly heal yourself.
•The Kóna can be abused, by piking up and placing the station again you'll instanly recharge it, saving yourelf time and healing a lot of HP in a short time. Such mechanics, in my opinion, makes the operative much stronger.

•The recharge indicator will give out the enemy position if he's healed himself by Kona.
•The station is destroyed by any damage, so it's worth spending some of the resources to protect it.
•The station heals even with full hp, giving an over heal. The extra hp are decreases with time (-1 hp per ~second). Now over heal from Kóna can only be obtained with a weak wound..

I think of Thunderbird as a roamer, but it's no less useful in a strict defense. The gameplay is almost identical to Jager, simply place the gadgets and go take care of the attackers, like a pure frager.

Now Ubisoft has a nerf policy towards prominent operatives, which is sad.
Oddly enough, but Thunderbird with all her imbalanced aspects such as AR in the defense, secondary SMG, 3 speed and useful C4 isnt getting nerfed.
I advise you to main her while she's still a strong and useful operative at the same time.
As a former Jager main, I will say she's currently at the level of the old Jager, an S-tier operative.
P.S On Thunderbird I set mine kill/death ratio record (1.89 on platinum 3) and took the platinum 2 for the first time.

The statistics of the Thunderbird, when it was possible to track it:

So in conclusion. Can I recommend Thunderbird? Definitely.A very strong and easy-to-master operative. Good luck in the matches!
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