You missed my point entirely.

Why on earth if not for some degree of sentimentality for humanity would the Space Wolves risk extinction for human lives? Even the lives of what were probably very few Imperial Guard after the First War for Armageddon? And considering it was a siege of Fenris and Grimnar was completely unwilling to back down, it was a very real possibility.

How many exceptions do I have to throw at you until they stop becoming exceptions?

Norse honor code, I assume. And an understandably toxic reaction against a power-tripping Inquisitor. I'll defend Inquisitorial pragmatism all day, but that situation was completely out of hand.

What are you arguing for exactly?

That Space Marines are post human but have some degree of humanity to them.

Considering how much Space Wolves themselves tie their lives to norse tradition, ancient superstitions, and a style of fighting that owes nothing to strict practicality or rigidness I don't think it's impossible for them to defend those civilians because they don't agree to a pointless waste of human life nor would it be impossible for them to do something so simple and human as crack a joke.

Never mind that, technically speaking the purely pragmatic thing to do would be to kill them and prevent the possible spread of chaos.

Of course. I think we more or less agree here.

Kysnaros' hard-line approach was legally justifiable, but the escalation was disastrously wasteful and utterly tactless. The loss of Grey Knights alone was unforgivable, not to mention the destruction visited upon Imperial worlds around Armageddon, the damage to Fenris, etc.

Regarding the regular mortals on Armageddon who were exposed to Chaos, the initial plan of quarantine and sterilization seemed reasonable based on the history of similar events. Everything else? Galaxy-level FUBAR.

Back on topic...

The current battlecries are a good start, though I wish my Blood Angel would stop roleplaying a Dark Angel. Word Bearers are in a good place though. I'm not likely to play Chaos much once other factions are in but I'd love to see some Chaos God-specific stuff tied to Marks (e.g. frothing rage taunts for Mark of Khorne, Nurgly jolliness for MoN, etc.)

I'd like to see emotes that are utilitarian.

Dark Souls got this really well for that particular game. While the most famous is "Praise the Sun", there are a lot of more useful ones (beckon, point down, point up, point forward, head shake, etc.). While mic communication is usually faster and easier, emotes would be good for large battles where you want to get your point across to allies who aren't on your vox channel.

SW Battlefront's emotes are an example of what not to do. While they might seem campy and entertaining at first, I find having people spam these at the start of missions is annoying at best, and I've never seen them used in game to any great effect. With a couple exceptions the emotes have very little use for actual in game communication or roleplay purposes.

A good summary of some of the factions, although I'm not sure Chaos is quite that straightforward.

The Nine Legions, as the original traitors very loosely refer to themselves, do tend to look down on those who turned to chaos afterwards. After all, they've survived the hellstorm of the warp, have fought pretty much every enemy of any significance (including each other) across the last ten millenia and lived to tell the tale, so any newcomer who has only recently thrown off the shackles of the Imperium has a lot to prove to gain their respect and attention. With the exception of the Black Legion, they tend to be similar scornful of newcomers - especially those raised through the geneseed of other Primarchs - and particularly those of loyalist Primarchs.

However, this is Chaos. Formal heirarchies tend not to survive unmangled under its tender touches, so there are comparative newcomers who've earned the grudging respect of the traitor marines who fought in the Horus Heresy. Honsou of the Iron Warriors and Huron Blackheart of the Red Corsairs are amongst the most prominent examples in the lore, but its likely there are similar examples lower down the chain.

I'm not sure where the idea that the 'religious' marines are considered more worthy of respect than 'power seekers' came from - while it's almost true of the Word Bearers, its certainly not universal. The Night Lords and Iron Warriors have shown distaste towards those who bind themselves to a single facet of chaos, and look down on those who've been 'blessed' with mutations. The Thousand Sons originally felt much the same way, although these days it's not a problem they personally have to worry about. The Black Legion's views are likely to vary from one warband to the next.

It's fair to say that the assorted renegades and pirates amongst the Space Marines are vaguely sneered at by the larger warbands which are capable of conducting true warfare, although this generally seems to be a superhuman version of "My dad is bigger than your dad" rather than a true heirarchical structure. And again, a powerful individual would be respected irrespective of the size of the force they command or are a part of - Ahriman and Fabius Bile are, again, prominent examples.

Most chaos legions would probably insert their loyalist brothers somewhere between the renegades and the cultists. Worthy of respect as foes on the battlefield, but shackled and blind to the truth in their slavery to the False Emperor, and for the most part too stubborn, stupid or cowardly to recognise the truth of the galaxy around them.

The only common feature is that those aligned to Chaos tend to respect strength and force of will.

At the top of the scale, the Gods look down upon the Daemons and Daemon Princes, and they all look down on mortals as beneath their notice, or as pawns and prey for their own games. Beneath them are the great leaders of the legions, and even those who despise and distrust Abaddon don't dispute his claim to be Warmaster of all of the forces of Chaos in the Long War. Below Abaddon and the major Chaos Lords, other powerful Space Marines tend to look down on their less powerful and less sane brothers in much the same way. And all Space Marines look down on the general masses of humanity which have turned to Chaos, because they are so much weaker in comparison.

But...

There are powerful and influential humans and psykers that have had traitor marines in their honour guard, as we see in the Sabbat Worlds crusade. Some of the most insane of the Chaos marines are also the most respected, such as Kharn the Betrayer. Some of the Daemons have been enslaved or coerced by particularly powerful Space Marines. And the Gods themselves were sufficiently impressed by the sheer force of will behind Horus and Abaddon that they alone not only commanded the power of Chaos Undivded, but drew upon the divided armies of all four Chaos Gods to serve in their wars - something even the Dark Gods themselves have never managed to achieve.

So I would be wary of reading too much into the nominal heirarchy of chaos forces, for that way lies nothing but false certainties, screaming madness, death...and us.

Every game with /anything needs to have "/Pizza" in there. So I would want /pizza as an emote for the Orks, where they pull a pizza out of nowhere because they wanted one xD