Question to the community regarding the sportsmanship and z-fire

[Firestorm]

Yes It's cheating and I tend to not do it to the AI since they can't retaliate in kind (human beings are fair game). I've felt this way since even before z-fire was so effective. It's especially handy when you're using lower quality armies with lots and lots of infantry, HMGs and MG-equiped vehicles (World War-II era Poland or China, or any modern third-world army), or when you're facing same.

Originally Posted by Aeraaa

I dont consider it cheating,unless you can show me another way how to move to the building that has an Infantry squad in an urban map were you have 1 or 2 hexes visibility and not take massive casualties in the process...

The "proper" way to neutralize enemy squads before getting into grenade range is to drop artillery, that or set up the shootout where it'll be more in your favour (find another angle to attack them from, or wait for them to come to you). If you've no artillery for the former and no patience for the latter, either Z-fire or expect to do a lot of dying in that kind of terrain.