[swaghauler]

I saw this post and thought you might like the method I used to deal with weapons that have very short ranges but need to use the 4 range bands in Twilight2000 in combat. I use this system for the following weapons/attacks:

1) Lobbed Weapons: Such weapons include hand grenades and thrown nets.
2) Thrown Weapons: Includes knives, tomahawks, javelins, fine china and other "direct fire" thrown weapons. It also includes directly thrown grenades (in order to hit windows or doorways).
3) Projected RIFLE grenades (but not grenade launchers), shotguns firing "beanbag" rounds and grapple guns.
4) Tasers
5) Blowguns
6) Flamethrowers

All of these weapons have very short ranges but need to use the range bands in combat.

To do the ranges, you just divide the weapon's maximum range by 4 to get Short Range. You then ADD the range bands INSTEAD of doubling them. To differentiate an ADDED Range from a DOUBLED Range, I always put an added range band in brackets like so... [#]. This way everyone knows to ADD those range bands.
For an example; an Energa Rifle Grenade with a maximum range of 120 meters would have a [30m] Short Range, [60m] Medium Range, [90m] Long Range, and a [120m] Extreme Range. A TASER would be [2m],[4m],[6m],[8m] in use. On the ID card, Ranges would just be written [30m] or [2m] with the understanding that you add additional Range Bands.

So your Greener with a maximum range of approximately 30 meters (I would increase it to 32m for ease of division) would have a Short Range of [8m], a Medium Range of [16m], a Long Range of [24m], and an Extreme Range of [32m]. The .38 blank it uses SEEMS to be identical to the cartridges used to fire howitzers.

You could also equip them with the single-shot 12 gauge line launching shotgun that the Navy uses on their ships. It has ranges of [25m], [50m], [75m], and [100m] and can fire signal flares and even standard shotgun rounds when the line launcher is unscrewed from the gun.