I'm not familiar with the original Shogunate clan or its members, as I am not from EU and didn't pay attention to clans outside of NA until I started Strategus, but they sound tough. However, this thread seems more like an NA vs EU contest rather than clan vs clan.
During the glory days of RL we were hoping to be able to fight other weaboos competitively. We wanted to wage war with the Ninja but ping would surely decide the victor. We definitely would have fought the old Shogunate if it existed. There can only be one Shogun after all. ;)
As previously mentioned, our original roster included the best of the best NA samurai/ninja, hands down. The only exception was pretty much Zoleta, who remained loyal to TkoV. I'm not sure what type if formations or gear the old Shogunate used but we pretty much just tried to "look like samurai" and play with whatever looks best. We weren't going for all the cost efficient or easy-to-use set ups.
Some of you have been mentioning that this thread is about a living clan vs a dead clan, I'm curious to know which one is the living clan. o.O
As far as matching a large clan vs a small one, there really isn't much to debate there. Of course the bigger one would win, granted they had any skilled players at all.
As far as matching 1 vs 1 man to man, I can not say who would win, but I can say RL would not get steamrolled and in the event of losing, we would definitely have defeated the majority of their players.
More interestingly...
We speak of these two clans fighting each other, and boast about their strengths, but imagine if they were to have joined together.
That would have been a very solid force to be reckoned with and might have been able to work wonders in Strategus.