[split] Phalanx warfare: use of the spear

[Paul Bardunias]

I think this is beyond the evidence. It is a possibility though.

After all, the Tegeans were not fighting on a shield wall before charging, they were probably crouching behind their shields being out of range of their own javelins, which they probably didn't have at that age, and sustaining casualties from Persian archers, waiting for Pausanias to give the order.

I agree.  I don't think the Tegeans were equipped to act as a shield wall, only that for whatever reason, they did not act as a phalanx and charge.  The moment they did the whole battle changed.  The supremacy of phalanx over sheild wall was the result.