Not all defending units being allowed to fight?

Hi everyone. At the moment, i'm stuck in a loop of constantly losing a city, to what i'm pretty sure is a bug.

An enemy army attacks the city, which has five defending units in it. (note: the default max army size is five, so there shouldn't be any problem here)

When the battle begins, only the first 3 units are in the defending army, and i'm forced to battle using only those.

After i lose that battle, the city falls to the enemy and becomes theirs, but the remaining two units who didn't get to fight are still standing there, and another battle happens immediately, with just those two units on the defending side.

clearly this doesn't make a lot of sense. :<

any idea what is happening?

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I believe there is a separate metric for max defenders, but I'm not sure what the base is. All I know is that, several buildings which can only be constructed in a Fortress type city specifically increase the maximum number of defending units.

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I had another wierd defense experience, had 3 units in my border city and it got attacked by several stacks. First stack fights the garrison+3 units and gets utterly destroyed, second stack attacks in the same turn and only has to fight the 3 units .... no garrison and i lost it. I retook it shortly afterwards and also did not face any garrison, issue disappeared once i reloaded.

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