War Zone

I am not a gamer but I can imagine in strategic games you will fight tooth and nail to survive and to assist your allies to survive and all together you will be eliminating opponents. Any death in your team is a blow; you won’t rest until one enemy is killed as worth as the one you lost

The way the ground is laid in battle field means live or die; you cannot afford to lose key people, you cannot afford to lose many people, you cannot afford to lose the battle! Only because you have decided that you cannot afford to lose, otherwise in a computer game there two handy keys, you may use at your convenience:
1. quit
2. restart

now, imagine you are really fighting , not for your life but for your job! imagine you are facing a 25% head-count reduction mandate! ready?
no weapons allowed except for your mind. you start to lay the ground, plan your strategies and enter the game, maybe it is better to enter late, maybe enough is cut by the time you enter the battle; or then maybe it is better to begin first, you don't want to lose the opportunity to arrange the scene as you wish!
the ball is rolling, what do you think? what do you have to say? who is next victim?
blood shedding begins, first name to go is spelled out; someone named him, the name echoes in the room
what is the next move? fight back, justify his existence? sacrifice the pawn? who are you trying to save by letting the pawn down? knight? bishop? rook?

the battle is fierce, no implication, no explicitly talking of self and no exhibitions, but at the end we all know that the fight is over saving the King!
Long live the king