Thanks for the response @meatpipeline
After I posted that, I kept doing research and these were my assumptions:
* I was looking that the Maggotkin errata from 2019, not realizing that GHB 2020 lowered the points
*Host of the Depraved (all the hosts, really) call for x amount of <keyword> units and 2-3 heroes. Since the heroes have the keywords, I figured they counted. Seems that is not very clear since I saw some pages back various lists committing the same error.
*Be'lakor is not required, but his inclusion is so good. Also, his power of shutting down a key unit is clutch. This is why I included him and went for the battalion.
*Agreed on VLC and WLC. Both sweet on paper, but you pointed out the limitations.
To me, this army is very cool and lets me branch out with what I got. Its also an exercise of trying to do the most in an economical way by just maximizing what is in two SC!Boxes. I am definitely interested in what you can come up for Khorne. Tzeentch's box does not have enough keywords to make it work for this setting.
I guess my struggle is which daemons compliment Nurgle the best: Slaanesh with their movement and denial of potential shooting, or Khorne with lesser movement and exploding 6s. Which one of these 2 can do well without their book's buffs as standalone units?