The chant by Space Marines for a lost brother, but in this case, for the board game, Space Hulk.
Specifically, I refer to the First Edition version (and not the poor dumbed down later ones), which I would argue was maybe the best boxed boardgame ever produced by Games Workshop with its amazingly dynamic game play and and huge replayability. This was further enhanced with the addition of two expansions; Deathwing and Genestealer, adding new forces and rules to the game and even more board sections. On top of this, the wonderful Campaign Book added so much more, including rules for marines in power armour, Genestealer hybrids, Orks (orcs?) and Eldar.
Grey Knights, Inquisitors plus a few other exotic types and other Tyranids were also covered in the rules, with the Genestealer Partiarch figure being a particular favourite of mine.
Two aspects of the First Edition, which were 'simplified' in later versions, were the timer for the Marines (we used a chess type clock) and hidden command points. The method we used here was for the marine player to roll a D6 and then cover it with a cup, and placing a command chit when such was used. At the end of a turn the dice was revealed so that the 'stealer player could verify it against the chits. 'Four rolled, four used' being a typical marine chant.
We played it a lot, and the only other GW game that came close in terms of playing time was Bloodbowl, but that's another story.
The other aspect about it was that all figures used were drawn from our WH40k armies ( I had 100+ space marines, amongst other stuff).
Lots of nostalgia, and, although I have the PC games, somehow, they just do not generate the same tension and excitement as did the board game (1stEd!).
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“O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days.”
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'