I've tried a few methods but I usually lose, even though I've upgraded my defence towers and walls quite a bit, while I see other people with worse towers and walls doing better at defending their base than me. My town hall is level 5 right now.
It looks like most of the high level players use a diamond shaped base structure, with the towers evenly distributed, and every few buildings with their own surrounding wall. But what I don't understand is how I should determine what defensive tower goes where.
Really, what I want to know is how I should determine how to distribute my defensive towers. If I don't have enough walls or defenses I can easily improvise, but how do I set up my base for max efficiency?
For clarification, I'm not asking for someone to put together a base for me to copy. I just want to know what kind of base design in general works best. I'd also like to know where bombs and spring traps are most effectively placed, because I can never find a good spot.
Best Answer
Like Jerry said, there is no "best defense", and frankly at th5 you are fairly low on the totem pole as far as power goes, so there isn't a lot you can do to protect your base. However if you are looking to try and build a better base, consider reading through these tutorials. http://clashofclans.wikia.com/wiki/Flammy's_Strategy_Guides A few key points are understanding how troop ai's work, and building your base in such a way that takes advantage of it, don't double up on walls, don't try to cram everything inside of your walls, and don't spread your defenses out too much. What's nice about this is under his base-defense-basics page, he has a video on building a th5 base from start to finish.
One thing I would suggest for lower level th's in general is to not worry about trophies too much. I am a mid level th9 and have never had my th inside my walls in main base. put it in the corner and hope someone attacks it and not your base. if they do you lose 1000 elixir and gold, and you get a nice 12 hour shield. everything really just comes down to personal preference and trial and error.
Note that as of the 2015 winter update, which is at the time of this edit not yet released, TH snipes will no longer provide the defender with a shield and your TH will store more than 1000 elixir and gold, equivalent to 1 gold storage, 1 elixir storage, and 25% of your dark elixir.