Scrum in Miniature

  For the September gathering of the Second Saturday Scrum Club , seven of the nine official members managed to attend either the first or the second of the day's games. At 1:00 p.m. I put the board game Battlestations on the table, a game I bought during the pandemic in anticipation of playing with the club once we all could gather in person again. The main event, however, is always our 4:30 game, and this month the club tried another set of wargaming rules new to most of us, To the Strongest! John and Steve organized the game and taught the rest of us the rules. To the Strongest! The Scrum Club sometimes flagellates itself for a bit of ADHD when it comes to jumping from one ruleset to the next from month to month. In the four years we've been meeting, I think we've only once played the same set of rules in two consecutive months ( Chainmail in January and February of 2020). In fact, that's the only set of rules we've played more than once at an official Scrum Clu