As it stands now you have to pillage and trash every strategic item before attacking the city to get any value out of defeating your enemy.



This is tiresome and boring process after the 3rd time let along the 20th.



I feel it would be a far better game mechanic that when I attack and defeat the city that any luxury or strategic resource and village in the region is 'pillaged' and I get those resources as if I pillaged each one of them before attacking and defeating the city.