Is there a pause button where you can look at the battlefield?
Or even give orders while the game is paused?

I don't enjoy to have to move the camera around and click like crazy.
Not just that... I am so bad at it that I have not much fun playing.
I totally love the battles and move a mech backwards, all the while shooting forwards, repairing it while the other mechs cover for him, then the next one.

Or the idea to build guard towers with infantry in it sounds pretty good and all but... there is always more than one scene of battle and I am just not good enough to care for all battles at once. Any idea?

Am I doing something wrong or am I just bad? Did I miss a feature? Should I play "easy" instead of "normal"?

Did I make them attack me somehow and could instead only have one battle scene at once if I did ... something?