Spokes, on 27 January 2014 - 05:19 PM, said:
Hanse Davion pilots the 'Mech briefly in Stackpole's "Warrior: Coupe" (Chapter 42, pg 258 of the 10th Anniversary Ed.), but there is no description of the machine beyond the fact that it's a BattleMaster.
I am virtually certain that the 'Mech features in the very first book, "Sword and Dagger", but that's the one novel I don't have.
Page 258 of Warrior: Coupe "Tall and humanoid, with a massive, pistol-like PPC in its left hand..."
Same page when engaging a
Panther and then a
Marauder: "The PPC in the
Battlemaster's left fist cored the aft armor on a
Panther..." and "A
Marauder turned around to face him. It stabbed one massive arm in his direction, but Hanse angrily batted it aside with the
Battlemaster's right hand."
Page 259: "Hanse dropped his targeting crosshairs onto one
Locust and fired all four of his forward lasers."
Describing Hanse's
Battlemaster in part during the Death Commando/ComStar raid on New Avalon. We learn it has a left hand PPC, and four forward firing lasers and at least one rearward firing laser. No SRMs are ever fired and no Machine Guns fire in the fight. So either Starbird has changed since
The Sword and The Dagger, or Hanse swapped his old ride for a lefty BLR-1G and went into battle with no ammo. Or Stackpole completely derped on where the PPC was mounted.