The actual base layout looks, in some ways, like a sort of spiral. It has the Town Hall centralized and surrounded, in the core, by some important defensive structures such as mortars, air defense and the Clan Castle.
I placed the mortars on opposite sides of the base in order to maximize the range in which troops will be hit by them. The clan castle and air defense are then placed opposite each other as the clan castle is often filled with archers or wizards who will also provide air defense. The air sweeper is placed on the outside to assist in getting air troops off the Town Hall.
Surrounding the core are all 4 storages on opposite sides of each other (gold opposite gold).
These storages are spread out enough that the attacker will need to spend little troops on all areas or attempt a 3 star to get all the loot.
The gold storages are both protected by a wizard tower as gold is the more important resource compared to elixir and are therefore slightly better protected.
Finally, there is the funneling. Funneling is basically where you make enemy troops go where you want them. Since giants target defenses, instead of going for walls, the giants, no matter where placed (I think), will go for the defenses with the one wall gap. All of these though, have spring traps which will fling a few giants and some even have sets of bombs to weaken them even further.
I am very happy with this base and it has performed very well when I used it as a Town Hall 6. Keeping your trophies and resources safe (especially now that the Town Hall is partially a storage!).
Hope you all enjoyed and I hope this base gives you some success. If it does, be sure to let me know in the comments and yes, feel free to copy this base if you'd like.
Thanks!
- Deefooty