Why were phalanxes multiple ranks deep?

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Were they tackling each other like football or something? Just feels like if you’ve got a 20 foot spear pointed forwards, there’s no point in having other people behind you pointing their sticks at the sky.

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With multiple lines of men, they guys behind them could brace those in front, and so on. Also it made for easy roation on the very front line to rest those troops that needed it!

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