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ok, that explains a lot then.. i was afraid you wanna suggest exactly that, because i think doing such thing in this order would be actually lethal to the front rank.. amount of speed combined with the push of the formation, then hitting the solid obstacle (braced enemy shield wall)... that could be quite dangerous..

Anyway i can see a tightly packed group of men being capable stopping any attempts on breaking the line.. seen some nice videos about Korean Police training just that, where they doubled the formation in the area where enemy was expected.. let me see if I can find it quickly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbFSVh1mmiw


btw, unrelated but at 1:00 in that video, the loose order, i would imagine that could be how Romans could fight.. they were mentioned to use double the spacing of Hellenic phalanx.. and such open formation would easily allow any rank replacements...