Actually I was expecting some plot twist triggered with caskas death - it would be fitting to the occurring dark events right now with griffith and so on.
I guess I was wrong about the time skip. Rickert and a lot of the other members of the Band are still clearly injured and Casca is now the leader. With a tired leader and a run down troop the sneak attack was pretty much destined to succeed. Thankfully Guts got wind of this and saved her just in the nick of time.
Will the Band embrace his return, though? After all, you could argue that this is all a result of his actions.
