Possible Clues:

• Idiot for example with excellent weapon
• Spear as good in main incursion, initially
• Advantage curtailed, soldier having impounded a weapon
• Kill with spear because age is deforming
• One of 30 across, for instance, gets to be OK and gets to the point
• The gases get to be first-rate when you get to the point
• Wooden spear associated with 19th century Zulu warfare
• Silly sort of a guy, by the sound of it
• Spear a long time back used in much of Asia
• The point of this is that it makes a silly one first-rate, for instance