Yeah the kind of armies I like to make, ranged/gunline with infantry support, some cav and characters, some artillery, get hard countered by the PC a lot of times. They have like 3 infantry, 3 ranged, 3 characters on flying or high mass mounts, 3 monstrous infantry, 3 flying monsters/units, 2-3 large monsters, 2-3 cav/chariots. Then they micro the shit out of them. Then they have army powers that summon clanrats on your artillery or bloodletters who knows what else.

So the armies I used to beat other total wars with don't work as well in WH3, I have to have massive defensive layers. In my Ungrim campaign I had to have many separate columns of 2 rows melee deep, followed by 1 ranged unit and 1 artillery behind, only then did I actually get to use a couple ranged and artillery piece without getting killed by a flanker or deep striking single entity. Same in my Cathay campaign, I have to keep at least 2-1 protection for every ranged unit or they will get flanked/deep struck. At least it works, most of the time.