Another favorite choice is to attack an active member of an alliance with a fair amount of members, but have small nations. Our alliance has 30+ members and one of us was attacked by this idiot:
Along with ground assaults, Fede07 used air strikes and cruise missiles in his initial attacks and when Duke of Durham responded in kind, the raider demanded reparations. We :lol: -ed.
He was really offended also that we would stick up for our own members and hold his alliance accountable, saying that we were bringing in 'third parties.' He threatened to bring in un-named others to attack our entire alliance.
I won't go into detail how we handled this, but things didn't work out the way he hoped.