Martellus

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Martellus is a Steve Blum-voiced Blood Ravens Techmarine who first appeared in Dawn of War II. Not being a player character, his primary job in the original installment is to deploy field generators when you capture a shrine, manufactorum, or comms array, and to provide intel of limited usefulness during deployment on missions. On the whole he had only slightly more screen time than apothecary Gordian, whom most players don't even remember. During the final battle, his Thundderhawk is shot down by Tyranids, and Martellus plays a rousing game of skullfucking ork lootas and avoiding random feral Nids for a few years.

During Chaos Rising, the force commander's squad rescues him while securing an astronomic array, and Martellus proves himself useful by fixing your termie armor and guiding you to the logic engine you need to ascertain which member of your squad has betrayed you to the Black Legion. If none of your squadmates are particularly corrupt, he ends up betraying you, raising the question of why he decided to help you out the traitor in the first place, which can only be explained by incompetence. While he does get some decent lines and a decent voice, his betrayal lacks the punch of any other ones, as the player's neither responsible for it nor capable of giving two fucks about Martellus in the first place.

Unfortunately, if you do go down the Martellus-corruption path, you will quickly start giving a fuck, either in the form of rage or fear, when Martellus drives out of the hangar in a customized Chaos Predator. He hits for a metric fuckton of damage with his gun and ramming, summons minions and artillery strikes, and has immense health under heavy armor that puts him right up there with Eliphas and Ulkair in terms of bullshit bosses. Going down that horrible, non-canonical road more or less necessitates bringing Davian Thule or a fully corrupted force. When killed, he explains that Azariah Kyras is a heretic and that Eliphas saved him on Typhon.

In Retribution, it's revealed that Martellus was not the traitor, and he finally becomes a playable character, serving alongside Apollo Diomedes to hunt down Eliphas. He doesn't have as much of a role as the other three heroes do, but didn't end up voiceless like Bern, Kain, and Varius. He serves primarily to point out where the next teleportarium is, and also get angry at those who misuse technology. In gameplay terms, he's capable of dropping a turret that can act as a nice distraction until properly targeted, or a beacon that lets you reinforce near it. Most of his stats are average, and he's primarily useful in buffing a vehicle-based army, which poses an issue once heavy anti-tank starts coming out in the later levels. On the whole, he's not markedly special, but does his job relatively well.