During a Gnome-a-palooza PvP game, I choose an opponent who only has three troops on their team, and I fight three gnomes and one non-gnome troop. This has happened to me several times while playing SouthWild on Sunday. It’s not pleasant to be surprised by a Chrysanthemum.
Luckily it is not always Chrysanthemum, but the logical thing would be to have 4 gnomes, or 3 gnomes and a free space if you don’t want to put one where there was no troop.
Platform doesn’t seem to matter. I got it too on Steam, maybe like 1 in 20 fights having an unwelcome visitor. Really wild guess, it might be related to fighting in a blood frenzy region.
It could be, but it hadn’t happened to me until this past weekend, and I frequently play GaP in those regions. The only pattern I could see was that when choosing an opponent, they didn’t have four troops selected, which is also unusual.
Happened for me too, 3 times out of ~450 battles, played them on Sunday in pvp in Southwild region during the blood frenzy. Platform is android. Cant confirm on 3 troops on preview, do not have auto-reveal feature.