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Originally Posted by FeiLin
Also, the HPs for 3rd were about 10 times higher whereas the DR were maybe 30% higher, and weapons seemed to my untrained eye of roughly the same size, so does PD have that great impact or are there other explanations for this difference?
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Hit Points in 4e are derived in quite a different way. The RAW method for getting HP in 4e is to take the cube root of weight times 4 for vehicles.
As for DR differences, it's probably a matter of how the authors treated sloping and what a few other assumptions.
Bullets in 3e behave much like they do in 3e, but in 4e the damage multipliers for bullet size were codified. Thus even though in 3e they are given as doing crush damage, it's effectively the same as in 4e, so just take the damage as being pi or pi+ or whatever would be appropriate in 4e, with the same number of dice and penetration modifiers as it's given in the 3e source.
This, BTW, gives a check on the DR levels - check the 3e WWII stats for the Pz.IV and M4 tank guns against the 4e versions.