That sounds great. A lightweight video game system like this is potentially in the Battlefield games, where each side is divided up into 5 or 6 person squads; one of them is the squad leader and can give orders (e.g. capture or defend this point). Because it's a video game and most people cannot / don't want to communicate, it's done in that way and squad members are given a reward for following the order.

In some of them you have a single person who is like a commander of the whole fight who can set orders to each squad. But since only one person can be that and many people want to be, I don't think they kept that feature in for long.

But it's the kind of game where I think if you had a big group of friends with a chain of command and good communication you could easily win any match against an otherwise unorganized enemy, even if their individuals are better players.