Why the Saipan reduced Marines?

[warstudent]

Larry made a separate thread, but thought a link to the following Daily Content article here might be useful:

http://www.avalanchepress.com/SaipanRifle.php

From the link:
In the early printings of Panzer Grenadier: Saipan 1944, we gave the Marine Rifle platoon an enormous direct fire rating of 10, making it the most powerful infantry unit in the game series (the Soviets have some AK-armed infantry in Hammer & Sickle with the same firepower rating, but they have a shorter range). That’s probably a little too much, and later printings pull that back to a mere 8:

So Saipan has DF 8 marines officially?