Wouldn't it be easier to set up an HTTP broadcast / multicast?
Or even an MQTT setup, if you have a machine to act as a broker. All nodes would respond to whatever you want them to in that case, and the coding/overhead would be minimal.
Removing TCP/UDP as you imply, would invalidate the whole point of the ESP8266, wouldn't it? What would you have left? An inaccessible wifi frequency transmitter, that only Espressif could really hack? But maybe I misunderstood what you are trying to do....