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[quote="CHAKA!":62bb1]About the name: I think they might have gotten it from the nickname of the 3rd Armored Division, which was Spearhead. They served in The Battle of the Bulge, which the expansion pack reportedly will be centered around.

more info on 3AD here:
[url="http://www.damondata.com/spearhead/history/4germany.htm"]http://www.damondata.com/spearhead/history/4germany.htm[/url]

Though I might be wrong... eek:[/quote:62bb1]

Well it turns out I'm probably countless miles off the mark. I did a Google search for "world war II" + "spearhead" and got over 9000 hits - apparently it's just a military term used to describe the frontline of an invading/attacking force, commonly in regard to the allied invasion of Germany during WW2.

(The metaphor also strikes me as having certain Freudian overtones, but let's not go into that here... ed: )