I'm with OP on this - I would never go through the TH with all those high hit point buildings. I might try about 1 o'clock and EQ the CC to take a very long route to the AQ. My expectation as an attacker would be GBs around 12 o'clock and 3 o'clock. The TH... I would probably just drop a couple of minions on it at start to save time later.

