The medic is a great suggestion. Keep your eyes peeled in a future update.
For a faster game, there is a toggle in the "Settings" panel. Click "Nice animation" and it should change to "Fast Animation". You can also turn off the battle camera zoom in there and even skip the upkeeping stuff. And lastly there's the button in the top/right of the gameplay screen that allows you to fast forward the enemies turn.
Rubicon said:Sounds like you got the right idea, but you shouldn't stand on a blue pad whilst engineering.
To stop cheesy play, you're not allowed to stand on the pads to block the enemy from building stuff, so any units left their get to meet their maker in the next turn.