i have no lethals.
some one 208% of my score sends 5 million vampires.
No AR.
Then straight after, 2mill Puppets.
No Ar.
Awesome.
2m puppets isn't likely to trigger even on very very high AR. Puppet players (at many times) need to use zeroed, or recently zeroed, people to gain some valuable troops.
I agree that sometimes AR seems overly harsh, or extremely unfair, but there are quite a few advantages to being solo i find, or found when i played Solo. No it's not a 'play for free without getting attacked' card, but it's pretty darn close.
Just out of curiosity tho, what were the (approx) AR values after you died to vamps, and then when the Puppet attacked you?