Quote Originally Posted by WhiskeyGhost
duly noted, and i concur with that assessment. I suppose it was lowered so it makes it harder for you to place spearwalls quickly within a changing battlefield. I could just imagine having a spearwall unit moving to my exposed flank quickly to put up a wall just in time to prevent an enemy charge for decimating my front lines
Well, you can do that. Just use pikes, as mentioned, they walk at normal pace.

But I agree it does not make sense.