strike with optional maneuver

is this optional maneuver used on the next round of combat or is the strike card able to be played during determine range step locking you into a given strike?

mirddes wrote:

is this optional maneuver used on the next round of combat or is the strike card able to be played during determine range step locking you into a given strike?

To use the maneuver, you play it during the Determine Range step of a round of combat, This commits you to choosing it as your strike during Choose Strike.

You can also play the strike during Choose Strike without using the maneuver. In that case, the maneuver is lost. You can't save it for a later round, or anything like that.

Rulebook, wrote:

To use a maneuver from a strike card, the minion plays the strike card during this phase [Determine Range] instead of during the choose strike phase (below). If a minion uses the maneuver from a strike card or a weapon, he is effectively choosing his strike as well. As such, he cannot use a second strike card or weapon to maneuver again in the same round.

If a combat card played by a minion has a maneuver as part of an effect, the maneuver must be used that round of combat. If a combat card played by a minion has an "optional maneuver" as part of the effect, then the minion may decline to use the maneuver.

vekn.net/general-rulings

General wrote:

A maneuver or press gained by a combat card can only be used during the current round of combat. ... [TOM 19960521]