What is "shock troop"

n. A military formation created to lead an attack.

Shock troop might refer to:

• Shock troops, troops intended to lead an attack
• Shock Troopers, an arcade game
• Shock Troops (album), an album by punk rock band Cock Sparrer, released in 1982
• Creatures in the Half-Life series#Shock Troopers, a fictional alien species of Race X, from the computer game Half-Life: Opposing Force
• Shock Troop (film), a 1934 German film
• Shock Troops (film), a 1967 French film
• Shock (troupe), an English music/mime/dance/pop group

Shock Troop'' (German title:Stoßtrupp 1917'') is a 1934 German war film directed by Hans Zöberlein and starring Ludwig Schmid-Wildy, Beppo Brem and Max Zankl. It shows German soldiers fighting in the trenches during the First World War. It was based on the novel Der Glaube an Deutschland by Hans Zöberlein.