I must disagree totally, the odds are stacked in the small players favour. Yes I have a large account as i'm in the top 20, but in W1 i took thousands and thousands of troops of Orc when i only had 5 villas, 1st there is the fact that you can produce nobles and keep taking barbs so quickly, 2nd you have morale on your side as well, and 3rd rams only hurst walls, so you dodge, you snipe and you just make sure that its always the nobles that get hit.
No one said it was easy, but it can be done, make it hard for players to take you out and they soon look for easier prey elsewhere.
Britecraft
And I must partially disagree with you I'm afraid
It depends how much the big player wants the village and how good he is and his location.
If the big player wants the village badly, or he has plenty of spare nukes and nobles beause he has been in a safe area for far too long, then why on earth would he send a noble train? That's just stupid.
He sends enough nukes with rams to kill the walls. With your advice the small player dodges, so that'll take one nuke.
He then sends five nobles straight afterwards, each with a nuke attached.
How exactly does the small player snipe? And because there are no walls the village is captured. Job done.
He can also send nukes to each of the other villages at the same time. The small player is 14k, that probably means 5 villages, the big player is 400k, that probably means 50 villages, so 10 nukes with 5 nobles wouldn't be a problem.
"look for easier prey elsewhere"
Maybe there are no better targets, because he's in the middle of Urban, or Test!, or any other big tribe with a long rim side.
No, sorry, in some cases it can't be done, and he's better re-starting in a better place.