Design question / suggestion for IW about dominion death

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I don't understand how "easier to kill than to convert" answers why it is the way it is, since you don't seem to have to kill them - they just vanish. I was suggesting anyone would have to fight them as independents after their god evaporates. As it is, it looks like you will have to fight them (spies report their armies as they were), but when you move in with any unit, there is no actual contest. I assume it means that they have no will to fight without a god, so they give up as soon as anyone shows up.

PvK