Question on defending units

[Knite]

I recently had game with a pretty brutal war of attrition with the Russians while playing Germany, often I noticed that when they attacked me and were forced to retreat, that even though the battle overview said some of my units had been damaged and destroyed, the units remained, or at least the numbers seemed to stay the same, I was wondering why this might be?

[JanSorensen]

I dont see any way to answer that question without seeing a concrete example.
 
If you have a save just before a combat and a save just after the combat then I will be happy to take a look at those for you. My mail is janbs@stofanet.dk