[X] Raise
The cheating here is marching in with an Iron Breaker throng and three wizardly fellows. Gambling our neck against vampires can be fun, but what information could we acquire that would change our tactics away from rolling in with a throng and three wizardly fellows and obliterating them?
If we're 'scouting' in order to kill what we find, that's basically just doing the assault ourselves, which is doable, but has always had hairiness waiting in the wings. We brought all the backup because that was a surer bet than doing it ourselves, didn't we?