Signal the fleet!

[7eat51]

I think the potential for miss communication that has been highlighted could make for some interesting engagements.

What distance do you think makes sense for signaling? One ruler given that is the length of firing? Two rulers given the use of telescopes?

Should there be a random die roll when there is fog that would require the sender to leave off 1d4 of flags in a given message, or a random die to choose which flags to leave off, or a roll to see if sending any message is possible?

[David Manley]

What distance do you think makes sense for signaling? One ruler given that is the length of firing? Two rulers given the use of telescopes?

I wouldn't bother with limiting it. The distances over which signals could be read far surpasses the size of a typical wargames table, even a large one.