Need help 3rd mission!

[wilson419]

First and foremost, hello to all, this is my first post here. I just love this whole series; by far some of my all-time favorite games. Anywho, I apologize in advance for the length of this post, but I am a bit frazzled atm...this particular mission has been kicking my a$$ all day!

I decided that to savor the game since I am a huge fan of the first 3, and since I tend to regret whipping through all the missions on normal difficulty (inevitably I wind up replaying most of them on hard anyways), I decided for Red Tide I would play through the whole thing on hard right from the get go. I accept the fact that this decision has resulted in painstakingly slow progress, but honestly, I just don't understand if I am missing something or what is going on with the third mission in the Odessa "campaign."

Basically I started out with the usual 8 guys, took out the radio station first and made contact with my "reiforcements" (i.e. one dive bomber), cleaned out the dock area then crossed the body of water to the little island, captured the 3 AA guns and shot down the bf109's, and thus I have reached my impasse. Ok, I have 4 men left, one of which is stuck on the AA gun via some damn glitch, leaving me with 3 guys to go back over to the mainland with, grab the T33 or whatever (goofy amphibious thing armed only with a machine gun!?), and somehow battle my way through the heavily fortified Romanian lines to the 3 artillery guns and take them out.

How in gods name is this even possible!?!? I am at a total loss, even if I had my full compliment of 8 little men, there is still like 50+ Romanian infantry in their sector, at least 15 light/medium tanks (all with a cannon at the very least), various AA/AT guns, and a minefield. That T33 is practically worthless btw, its like a tin can. So far I've tried sneaking in; which is impossible because it is swarming with enemy, I've tried rushing for the three empty Romanian tanks smack-dab in the middle of their sector and stealing them; impossible to get away with, I've tried racing to the guns outright; again no way possible, I've tried flanking all the way around to the other landing beach and making my approach from there; can't blow past the heavy concentrations of Romanian armor and at. I just don't get it...

Sometimes I miss the obvious, so forgive my ignorance, but if someone could share with me their strategy or enlighten me to whatever I am missing I'd greatly appreciate the input. Thanks in advance to anyone with a suggestion.