Yeah, I think you're thinking of inducti who were space marines in basically name and body alone, which was only done during the HH when numbers of GC veterans were greatly depleted or the legions were bled to the bone and rapidly needed to replenish their numbers or risk permanent inoperability. Also, 30k era Space Marines had more DAOT tech lying around, but I will give you that armor types improved, and more selective recruitment and longer training periods take place in 40k. It's also fair to point out that the type of combat the space marines were trained and equipped to fight in are vastly different between 30k and 40k. I was merely under the impression that 30k Space Marines had better training and arms due to their primarchs still being around and Mars being able to churn out the good stuff.
Edit: Oh, I see you were talking about the Astartes before they received their legion names. Yeah, I would tend to agree that those Astartes paled to 40k ones in most ways.
Edit: Also, Big E had yet to perfect the Astartes creation process super early on during the GC. And Im sure training, equipment, and recruitment all improved when the primarchs came into the picture.
Edit: Although, would you give me that 30k Astartes were taught to be more tactically flexible and less specialized? In 40k you have alot of chapters good at specific things or areas of combat, like urban warfare, and more average at other things working together, whereas in 30k you have Astartes fighting on many different battlefields, having to adopt tactics on the fly/improvise.
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