Meshing Issue

So I decided to start trying to make hair for the Sims 3. it was fairly easy enough. However, I am having the hardest time getting the polycount low enough for the lod3 file. Milkshape just isn't doing it. Everything else went pretty smooth. I looked up solutions and sorta found one, so now I am downloading the trial version of 3dsMax to see if that will work. Lets hope, so I can move on.