Shogunate in a nutshell. Names themselves Shogunate then using european armor and weapons.
If you're talking about the old Shogunate - go to hell.
We've brought samurai armor retextures twice (first one made by one of our guys, Shagrath, redoing the vanilla pink armor), constantly lobbied for weeaboo stuff getting buffed and new weapons getting added , made new textures of swords (which didn't get in as usual of course) and won a good deal of clan battles and tournaments without using shields.
Not to mention the inner clan system of subclans and promotions that was highly inspired by the clan's theme.
In the end people started to grow tired (and i grew tired of restricting people too) and wanted to use a wider variety of weapons and armors, hence the theme change.