Haha good thing I didn't just recruit a bunch of GUOs and soul grinders because surely T4 units are good 
Yeah overall that's about what I'd thought, my main mistake seems to have been trying to use plaguebearers/exalted plaguebearers for those chump herald armies because "they are demon lords so they get demon armies
".
Two thoughts:
- a unit or two of plague drones with death's heads always seem to way overperform
- Pestigors seem to be in a weird place where they're just a little bit better than marauders but worse than chaos warriors and I'm not sure what their use really is