This mission is an epic bitch.
The editor route seems overly complicated and doesn't appear to work with the Steam version of the game. There's no editor in the RT directory, so I copied the one from the original game's folder over, but the directory structure is different from that detailed in the post referenced earlier.
For any Steam users out there who're frustrated with this mission, maybe this will help. I downloaded a trainer from gamecopyworld.com (the Red Tide +6 v1.0.1 STEAM trainer). Your antivirus will probably tell you it's a virus, but it isn't, so set an exception for the binary (brewers.exe). Run it as an Administrator (right click, then Run as Administrator). Your AV program might detect another file (I forget what it's called, but it's placed in a C:\windows\somethingorother folder...add another exception. After the trainer is turned off, this file is removed). Now run Red Tide--for some reason I had to run the program directly from the C:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\men of war red tide\ folder for the trainer to work. Running it from the steam games list didn't seem to work. Now start the mission. You'll need to change your F9 and F10 key bindings in the game to something else (I just used shift-[ and shift-]). Now, pressing F9 gives you unlimited health, F10 unlimited stamina, F11 unlimited fuel, F12 unlimited ammo (caution, see below), and some other stuff. If the trainer is working you'll hear a sound when you activate any of the features.
Note that the infinite health only works for infantry. Tanks can still be damaged/blown up (although the crew will be okay). DON'T use the unlimited ammo cheat, as in addition to unlimited ammo, your tanks have 0 reload time. Sounds great right? It would be, except all the German tanks/vehicles/artillery *also* have 0 reload and unlimited ammo. Those infantry guns firing 3 rounds per second ruin your day even with infinite health turned on, and you can't turn this cheat off once you start it.
So leave your tanks behind and use your infantry to run around and kill everything. You can still give your infantry unlimited ammo, just hit I to open the inventory, hover the mouse over an item, and press the number 9 key. You'll get 99 of whatever you're highlighting. Do this for every soldier in a squad. Why? Because if your infantry blob gets hit by arty, there's a good chance they'll drop their guns and grenades. (I spent more time picking up weapons after dropping them than I did killing enemies).
I think this game is awesome and don't generally see the need to cheat...even if I'm having trouble with a mission it's fun enough to start from my last save and try another tactic. However, this mission is just ridiculous and isn't fun. After dicking with it for 6 hours I just wanted to get past it and on with the rest of the game.
Cheers.
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