After looking at the downloads Shambles has made available on his site, it appears the mappacks have been combined into one big one. His site link is in the "Shugun Diehards" thread. You can get them from there, or here in the downloads section. Not a lot are using mappack maps now, but it's good to have them so you can play on them with those that do.

Last year the mini-community went through a period where 1.03 got some attention. Kas held a 2v2 tourney using it that attracted 16 teams, many from old, established clans. Before that, and shortly after that, the most popular patch used online was 1.02, despite the need for a 4 max of a unit type and no ashi rules, nedded to address serious balancing issues inherent in the 1.02 beta patch stats. Som prefer 1.03 or other custom patches over 1.02 because of the imbalance, but the majority of people who have been playing online in the last year and a half use 1.02.