just my own way of doing it -

kicks - eq seperatly - run thru a group - compress group - eq group

bass - bass exciter/enhancer - sometimes compress seperate (depending on sound im looking for, ie. if i want the bass to stand out ill compress it seperate, if i want it as a subtle rumble ill run it thru the kicks channel)

percussion - eq and fx seperatly - run thru group - compress group - eq group

everything else has its own compressor

for side chaining ill usually set up an aux fx channel and patch anything i want side chained into it.

then everything is sent to a "master bus" that i set up myself, which in turn is sent to the output channel - this is just in cubase so that i can automate master fx (cubase has no automation on the output channel.

hope this helps a little.