Hi Adherbal,

spearwall is actually something different to guard mode.
When you activate spearwall for your yari ashigaru, they move to a closely packed formation and lower their spears to fend of any attacks. May be worth trying out.


On a little sidetrack :)
My experience was quite like your own. I loved STW and MTW/VI, but was rather disappointed by the "get it over quickly" battles of RTW and stopped playing after that for a long time. Now I returned with buying a copy of Napoleon TW, and that one I have quite enjoyed. I find those battles sufficiently slow paced to allow for some actually quite nice tactical thinking and have not regrettet getting a copy of that game.

Good to see that at least the opinoins on the STW2 demo seem to be divided. I am still hoping that it will turn out good, when we get more experience with it.