Can you charge with a pavise?

[dwkay57]

I'm still steeped in WRG 5th terminology which is why a charge is "any move intended to result in hand-to-hand contact" (page 23), but accept that the rate at which troops close is dependent upon fighting style, especially those which relied on close formation coherence.

I can envisage how a front rank of pavise bearers backed by others with long spears can trundle (for want of a better word) into melee but I'm not sure it works for Persian Sparabara formations if the rear ranks were archers who would need to be at some point in time stationary to shoot (unless they were trying out as a Merry Man) and would require some form of ranging instruction to be shouted at the rear ranks.