Strike with optional press

Squidalot wrote:

better to ask the specific card rather than the generic I would suggest

Sure but there are at least 2 cards with the same text template so I was hoping to get a ruling against the "strike X with an optional press" rather than getting a card-specific ruling and then having to extend it to other similar cards

Name: Lam Into
[TR:C, POD:DTC]
Cardtype: Combat
Discipline: Fortitude/Potence/Vicissitude
Requires an Anarch. Do not replace until after combat. Strike: hand strike or use a melee weapon strike.
[for] This strike is at +1 damage, with 1 optional maneuver.
[pot] This strike is at +2 damage.
[vic] This strike is at +1 damage, with 1 optional press. If another round of combat occurs, that round is at close range (skip the determine range step for that round).
Artist: Brian LeBlanc


Name: Righteous Blade
[NB3:PS4]
Cardtype: Equipment
Clan: Salubri
Melee weapon.
Strike: strength+1 damage, with 1 optional press, only usable to continue combat, each combat.
Artist: Pablo D. Hidalgo

With an example:

1. Can a minion play Lam Into (vic, hand strike) if the round is set at long range (without dealing damage of course)?
2. If yes, does the minion get an optional press?
3. If yes, does the new round is set at close range?

Lam Into

Lam Into and righteous blade fall in the case i said before, obvious the press from RB can only be used to continue combat, and the press of Lam Into can be used and if the next round occur, will be at close range

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