[Bull Snipe]

the Zulu iklwa was not for throwing. It was for close in thrusting. Shaka replaced the light throwing spear with the short iklwa as part of his reforms to the Zulu Impi.

[gundog]

Fine. But the Zulu were no strangers to flanking maneuvers, if the movie is to be believed.

These Spartan spears could be thrown. Plenty of them lying on the ground. The modern formation needed to be disrupted somehow. A dozen wounded would do that, for a start.