Rules & Regulations: Hearts of Tin. (updated)

For some odd reason I have been in an awful painting funk and unable to settle myself but I have gotten a chance to push some soldiers about and thus test the updated version of my Hearts of Tin wargame rules. These started life as a Morschauser variant with troops mounted as per the rules with 4 infantry or 2 cavalry on a stand as a "basic unit" and 5 basic units to a "regiment". The rules evolved from there until a misguided attempt to turn my regiments into "big battalions" last year sabotaged everything. After much debate, an acknowledgement of the desire to field my 40mm glossy toy soliders on individual bases and a long experimental walk down Featherstone Road has brought things back to their senses.  Some test games have banished the strangest ideas and reinforced some tried and true methods. HofT is now once again, my rules of choice for my sologames.

Since I am looking at shutting down my website due to budget constraints, I am testing an alternate method of sharing documents. The current rules are NOT available on my website.

The following link should allow anyone to view and download the current version. (link updated). The formating is a bit wonky in parts but you should be able to access it without signing in to Google.

Hearts of Tin  (10 Oct Edition)

Any comments and feedback are welcome. Everyone is welcome to use as little or as much as they please from the rules.  Please note that this is the basic game, basically what I need for my 1837 games as planned. Advanced rules to add more troop types, special weapons and tactics etc will be forth coming as I need them or in response to suggestions and comments.

40mm British  infantry, redeployed from India, hit a beach in the Oregon territory
in response to the US slogan "54/40 or fight!"

** Thank you John & Jeff for testing the links, both old and new (post removd). I have updated the original post and it should be working now.