Siege Defense; Why do my archers just stand in a square formation on top of the wall and do nothing?

So when I'm defending in a city vs a siege, I place my archers on the walls, like most people do I imagine. But only sometimes do they spread out and take individual defensive spots on the wall, and start shooting at enemies. And then sometimes they just stand there in a square formation and tend to not do anything, except maybe a lucky one or two of them who are in line of sight of an enemy.

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Now I must have done about 30 siege defenses by now, so I'm not a total noob. I've pressed every single function F1-F9 button available but I cannot seem to control any formations when they are on walls.

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So, please, what exactly is it that causes them to be smart archer like I sometimes see? And what makes them sometimes just stand there like dummies?

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I've noticed that the commands are often VERY glitchy and sometimes they do different things when I give them different commands in a row, proving to me that it's sometimes glitchy (I hope that makes sense but if you understand you know its 100% a glitch)

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I beg you, please spare me the comments like "I havent seen that glitch so you must be mistaken," I've seen others report the same thing

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