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Yes, but Twich wanted them to infiltrate human villages to find out the info.
Well basic stuff like the king's name would be known (or easily obtained from the prisoners from the last raid), but Twich wanted information about the local lord as well as some blank documents and such. You'd still need to go into the
village town for that, so his plan remains valid in my eyes at least.
Edit: Since we sacked one of the nearby villages, Athinar is attacking another, and Emily is incinerating the third there really isn't going to be a village to find information in... Let's just say that this information can be found in the nearby town. Makes sense as well, since it's the town that'd have a proper lord and an actual army to attack the dwarves.