I thought the same as well. Clearly the ancient Greeks weren't morons so there's probably a reason they did it the way they did. Thinking about it more, their s

I thought the same as well. Clearly the ancient Greeks weren't morons so there's probably a reason they did it the way they did. Thinking about it more, their system is probably much easier for a novice to use, or some random soldier grabbed for signal duty. There's no need to count and keep track of torch waves. The synchronization protocol seems pretty simple and the process afterwards is equally simple. Hell, your soldier doesn't even need to know how to count, if that was even a problem for the Greeks.