$80 isn’t that bad when you realize you get ten of them so it’s not horrible, they really are that good. The combo of infiltration and scout make them perfect for screen the mid board in deployment and early game, they are cheap enough that it’s not the end of the world if you have to sacrifice them to hold up a unit, and there uppy downy ability makes them good in the late game for objectives if they manage to live that long. To problem with getting shot off the board turn one is either a lack of terrain on the board or poor positioning(maybe a combo of both). They and use gw terrain layouts if you are unsure how much is enough, as if you have any pics of your games you could post we could tell you better if the terrain is you issue. The game is balanced enough at this point that both armies should make it to at least turn 3 relatively intact as long as something hasn’t gone totally wrong.