Victrix Greeks , 28mm plastics question

[Testudo Maximus]

Hello All
I recently picked up some of the 28mm Victrix Hoplite Mercenaries  plastics and assembled a few with great delight , i've found these to be a more satisfying purchase than  some other Hoplite plastics I have purchased.
I would like to ask here if anyone else has been able to assemble their Victrix  Hoplites with all of the spears pointing upwards despite the box coming with enough arms to model half of them either pointing upwards or overhead thrusting forward . For ease of assembling units I'd like to model all the spears ifrom the box set to be pointing upwards.
All of the assembled models I've seen on their advertising shows models with spears pointing up , I was wondering did they also use the " thrusting forward "arms to achieve this pose as well ?

Does any of tha tmake sense ?

Any assistance is greatly appreciated , thankyou .

 cheers Tom