I really enjoy the battles, but ...

[MarkShot]

I find the battles exciting (playing with rebalance).

But I find the doing staff work a drag.  Is there any trick to to get through this part of the game quickly?

Thanks.

[pandakraut]

What part are you trying to speed up? There's ways to standardize your army setup so that there is less thought on the maintenance, but you will still have to make new units,update old ones, etc.

[MarkShot]

Working out how to distributes funds for purchased guns, veterans, and allocation of captured guns.

I would love to just answer a few questions and have the game create a TOE based on my answers.  I realize that some players love the micro management of staff work.  I know real war is about logistics, but I play games more to be in the cockpit than the quartermasters office.

I would be happy to hear your thoughts.  Thanks.

[pandakraut]

Unfortunately there really isn't a way to automate that part. 

Perhaps use a standard setup and fill in with whatever is available to limit how much thought needs to be put into the camp side? For example: every division gets 3x infantry, 1 artillery, 1 skirmisher. Each unit type always gets set to the same size after every battle. Equip with whatever happens to be available. Not sure if this actually helps since it's still a lot of clicking, but all I can think of at the moment.