specifics in Spear fighting combat

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

Hey,a rather pleasant passage,Paul,but i think it was rather obvious and a bit irrelevant. Isn't it expected that one cannot fight in a marching formation,two abreast?! This was not the case with the Thebans of cource,as they must have had a wide enough frontage and should have been covered in their right from their allies and in their left from their superior cavalry.
In this occasion,if two abreast and 30 were the Lacedaemonian dead,then fifteen "ranks" must have fallen! This was not an equal and just fight between a deep and a shallow formation,it was one between a battle ready phalanx and a marching one!
Khaire
Giannis