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If those pesky Germens are giving you trouble and all you have is a pistol and a captured truck, save the game, go into the savegame file and turn the truck into a Tiger Tank!!

[Edited by kane1, 10/20/2007 8:47:45 PM]

This example is for adding bullets to your soldiers guns.

Start a new game or load a saved game, make sure your troops are somewhere safe. You have to be able to find your guys in the saved game file, so each soldier has to carry something you can identify. I like to use AP Tank rounds. Now have everybody draw their weapons and fire a few rounds. Save the game making sure you can remember the name of the saved game. Go into the FOW game folder, then the Profiles folder, then your profiles folder,then the save folder, then find the saved game. Locate the file named Mission, copy it and paste it somewhere safe. Open the mission file with notepad and scroll down until you find the inventory boxes it looks like this
{Inventory 0x9002
{box
{clear}
{item "thompson" filled {cell 0 0}{user "hand_right"}}
{item "pistol" "ammo" 100 {cell 4 0}}
{item "pistol" "ammo" 23 {cell 4 1}}
{item "mk1" "grenade" {cell 0 2}}
{item "mk1" "grenade" {cell 1 2}}
{item "helmet1_usa" {cell 2 2}{user "head"}}
}
}
{Inventory 0x9004
{box
{clear}
{item "thompson" filled {cell 0 0}{user "hand_right"}}
{item "pistol" "ammo" 94 {cell 4 0}}
{item "mk1" "grenade" {cell 4 1}}
{item "mk1" "grenade" {cell 5 1}}
{item "helmet1_usa" {cell 0 2}{user "head"}}
}
}
{Inventory 0x9006
{box
{clear}
{item "thompson" filled {cell 0 0}{user "hand_right"}}
{item "pistol" "ammo" 65 {cell 4 0}}
{item "mk1" "grenade" {cell 4 1}}
{item "mk1" "grenade" {cell 5 1}}
{item "mk1" "grenade" {cell 0 2}}
{item "helmet1_usa" {cell 1 2}{user "head"}}

Now find your guys, if you used AP Tank rounds it would look something like this
{Inventory 0x9026
{box
{clear}
{item "mgun" "ammo" 100 {cell 0 2}}
{item "mgun" "ammo" 100 {cell 2 2}}
{item "m24" "grenade" {cell 4 2}}
{item "helmet3_ger" {cell 0 3}{user "head"}}
{item "bullet88" "ap" "ammo" {cell 2 3}}
{item "mg34" filling "mgun" "ammo" 98 {cell 1 5}{user "hand_right"}}

Now just change the 98 into whatever you want, like this
{Inventory 0x9026
{box
{clear}
{item "mgun" "ammo" 100 {cell 0 2}}
{item "mgun" "ammo" 100 {cell 2 2}}
{item "m24" "grenade" {cell 4 2}}
{item "helmet3_ger" {cell 0 3}{user "head"}}
{item "bullet88" "ap" "ammo" {cell 2 3}}
{item "mg34" filling "mgun" "ammo" 99999999 {cell 1 5}{user "hand_right"}}

Close the file, click yes to save, go back into that saved game and your troops will have enough ammo to kill everybody.
Remember, adding all those bullets adds weight, so your troops get tired faster and if you drop the gun you might not be able to pick it up, also if your carrying ammo for the gun and you reload, it will go back to the default amount.

[Edited by kane1, 2/18/2008 12:31:34 PM]

Here's something to do to make your sniper more powerful. Use the "adding bullets" tip (make sure to backup your file first), equip one of your guys with a sniper-rifle, but instead of adding just more bullets do this;

Before;

Inventory 0x9026
{box
{clear}
{item "mgun" "ammo" 100 {cell 0 2}}
{item "mgun" "ammo" 100 {cell 2 2}}
{item "m24" "grenade" {cell 4 2}}
{item "helmet3_ger" {cell 0 3}{user "head"}}
{item "bullet88" "ap" "ammo" {cell 2 3}}
{item "g41" filling "rifle" "ammo" 10000 {cell 0 0}{user "hand_right"}}

After;

Inventory 0x9026
{box
{clear}
{item "mgun" "ammo" 100 {cell 0 2}}
{item "mgun" "ammo" 100 {cell 2 2}}
{item "m24" "grenade" {cell 4 2}}
{item "helmet3_ger" {cell 0 3}{user "head"}}
{item "bullet88" "ap" "ammo" {cell 2 3}}
{item "g41" filling "bullet150" "fg" "ammo" 10000 {cell 0 0}{user "hand_right"}}

It does'nt have to be 150mm, that ones reeeal powerful. It can be 30mm,50mm,75mm, whatever you want. It can even be a different gun, the sniper-rifle just has more range and is real accurate.