Oooohhh see it does sound fun to me, making sure that as many of your weapons can be hitting a target as possible(like for example, making sure the side of your ship is facing an enemy, say in pirate ship days or what have you, and attempting to out-manuever them to try and get less of their weapons hitting you). Though I'm not sure if thats possible because it seems like weapons are all spread out on a ship in this game, so any manuevering you did really wouldnt do all that much.
Perhaps only be able to fly a capital ship made just for this campaign that makes it more out-manuever and out-strategize your opponents. But other then this relatively bad idea of mine(lol), I like the revamped communications idea.