Is this cheating? Creating fake targets for enemy arty?

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I have an old opponent (not at the Blitz community) that has done this "smoke-deception" for ages. If he has onbord arty he always shoots plenty of smoke puffs here and there (with SP-mortar vehicles) before sending his barrages on me. He also has an nasty habbit in renaming his units before using them e.g. a Hummel becomes a 150mm howitzer. If I´m foolish and have a quick enough FO I start bombarding these "howitzers" which goes in vain since these Hummels are already somewhere else....of course sometimes he makes a mistake of firing me before "smoking" his rear area, he also tends to forget to buy trucks to tow his guns.

I have learned to write down the coordinates at once when his barrages begin...........funny how this fake target thing has not come up before IIRC