User blog comment:AssassinRome/Assassins in Japan?/@comment-3058930-20120805212727/@comment-1153722-20120807102736

Samurai could just be soldiers, split up between the usual archetypes like militia, lieutenants, brutes, seekers, agiles, archers, crossbowmen, riflemen and bombers. Shinobi could be a new archetype, along with monks perhaps.