Well I`ve recently gotten back into the whole Samurai thing after a long total war absence too. I started playing Shogun this week, watched "the Last Samurai" last night, and tonight I was at my local wargames club playing a game called "Samurai Swords" - Basically a board game version of Shoggy which was great fun.

By the way, my campaign is not going so great now, my first major battle against the Mori ended in catastrophe with my Daimyo and an heir being slain :( I love it, i dont ever remember losing that badly in RTW or M2TW.