Bahrain’s young and young-at-heart wargamers are swapping video games for dice, miniatures and self-made worlds, advocating the mental health benefits and the life skills built by a hobby with origins in military tactical exercises.
Wargaming is a hobby in which players use miniature figures representing armies, vehicles, or creatures to play out battles on a tabletop battlefield made of terrain pieces – think chess but with more rules, a self-designed and larger board, and multiple ways to win each game .