A battle bug, minions not entering combat (in General)

I've had some suspicions before, but now I'm sure. Sometimes there are battles when not all minions take part. I've seen first round losses in my battle log against opponents that just have 1 magic missile as they're damage dealer - but I thought ok, maybe they're playing around with they're strats, and somehow they are able to one-hit all my minions with sth like a 6M fireball.
But then, I found myself on the other side of the bug - in fights against Politician, I'm usually winning in 5-6 rounds. But I've been able to win my fight in 1 round. The reason for this - only one minion (Lie) was present. Killing him won me the fight. The other minion (Scandal) was present in one fight before that, and the next fight after.
It looks like some sort of a synchronization bug, so as a fellow programmer I can only say - good luck in solving this :)

Maybe someone else attacked him and took out all of his minions except Lie.

On occasion if you are fighting somebody quickly while they are fighting you may attack them at the same time as they are attacking somebody else. In which case that missing minion may just be lying there dead!

This applies to people attacking you too. Those fights you win? Where your damage dealer is last man/woman/thing standing? Somebody else attacks you at just that point before your team auto heals they get lucky with a very short battle.

Ahhh, ok guys, that would explain it. I've checked 2 1-rounders, and both of them were after a win by a team suffering first round defeat in the next round. Once again, I've learned something new about this game. Next time when I find something like this I'll just ask, because maybe it is like that by design.

There are a few little 'quirks' like that in the game. Have fun looking for them!

Yet, it's strange. A guy is trying to beat me, loses, and then heals immediately, attacks me and kills me in one round. If he was lower in score, he'd be draining my score. Kinda silly.

Not from his point of view if he's lower in score. His score rises to meet yours remember.

The old Double Tap. Can be a lot of fun if you're bored.

Obviously not for the other person...;)

Oh well, I guess I shouldn't complain. After all, that's free XP.