For instance, the Chosokabe have superior bow infantry, while the Mori are master shipwrights, and the Hojo get building construction bonuses. Each clan has unique strengths that you have to master if you plan to capture Kyoto, the nation's capital city, and unify Japan as its new shogun. You play as an ambitious daimyo, or leader, of one of the 10 most powerful clans in Japan.

Shogun 2's turn-based single-player campaign stands on its own merits as an excellent strategy game. Either way, you have to make intelligent use of terrain and unit abilities, keep your flank adequately protected, and do your best to sap the enemy units' morale before they can get the upper hand. The goal during real-time battles is to route the enemy army as an attacker and hold out as a defender. When an army engages in combat, you can either use the auto-resolve feature or fight things out in fantastic real-time battles. It is on this magnificent 60-province map of Japan that you make all of your strategic decisions, manage your dynasty, research technologies, build improvements like roads and farms, and direct your armies. The turn-based portion of the game takes place on a gorgeous strategic map that, although limited to the country of Japan (minus Hokkaido), feels every bit as epic as the continent-spanning maps of previous iterations in the series. Like the previous Total War games, Shogun 2 combines a turn-based strategy mode with tactical, real-time battles. Interests must include poetry, strategy, and the wedge formation. Merging beautiful graphics, scheming generals, improved multiplayer options, and deep strategic gameplay with countless small details that imbue it with historical flavor and drama, Shogun 2 is one of the most captivating strategy games ever made. Shogun 2 is like playing through a new, remastered edition of that game, complete with both the character dramas and the enormous battles. Still, its a nice skill to have, and the jump taking it from being a sport to a martial skill is a matter of mindset, there is a world of difference putting an arrow in the gold at 25 meters standing up in a straight line to the target, to putting it through the chest of a target thats semi concealed by trees while your up to your knees in freezing cold water.When the first Shogun: Total War came out, its real-time battles made you feel like you were playing through the epic battle scenes from one of Akira Kurosawa's samurai films. We have to remember how the bow was used in a military sense, it would be rare, again in the west at least, for an archer to pick a single target and shoot them, archers were normally deployed on mass to put as many arrows in the air as possible and have them rain down on an advancing enemy, massively successful at Agincourt, but by the end of the hundred years war advances in armour design practically made the technique obsolete.

I know its a terrible example but the way that Rambo uses a compound bow in First Blood 2 is what I'm thinking about I don't think its neglected, its just passed from being a martial art into being a sport ( in the West anyway ), taken in that sense a huge number of people still practise archery, there are field archery centers ( a nice walk in the country shooting at targets that are varying distances and angles ), not a huge jump to get to combat archery / crossbow ( change the shape of the targets ).

Shogun 2 bows sound like guns