POLL: Ancients: Speed Up the Preliminaries?

I thought preliminaries meant getting the beer, setting up the table and player aides etc. If you want maneuver that usually occurs before you set your stuff up on the table. Try a campaign. As above, many games occur at the point right before impact not the few days before jockeying for position. Ask Charles the Bold how interesting maneuvers in front of the enemy worked for him.
'Stars and Bars' is one ruleset that had flanking and off table movement during an actual battle, but that's the ACW and on a large scale.
Impetus, or any other set for that matter, really doesn't randomize set-up except maybe for terrain, and there is some judgment allowed there too. What's the problem here? I like boardgames and (simple) campaign rules for strategic decisions. A miniatures game for me is all about the push of pike, arrows and other pointy objects. Leave some flank space on the table and it's all good.