At first, I did that on my whole Pawn. I was really shocked to try to get it a 100… Then I discovered it’s only the base we want to lower the poly counts. Ahh much better…
I could not use the edge bridges though. After feleting the extra edge loops, selecting one edge would select everything. So instead, I just select everything I wanted to remove and use the disolve tool ( “x”, disolve edges or mesh --> delete --> disolve edges)