In addition to manually using them you can now experience 'combat momentums' in battle that allow you to perform a combat maneuver instantly. When you get one of these momentums you have a short window of time to enter a command to use the maneuver before the opportunity fades away. For example if you get a combat momentum that allows you to perform a strike you would type 'use strike'. Note that you may not target the maneuver or use any special options available to some of the maneuvers. There simply is no time for fancy stuff like that.
Maneuvers performed through combat momentums come with lower ep costs and otherwise perform like normal combat maneuvers. Chance of getting such momentum scales with skills, melee being the most important at the moment. Using triggers to perform combat momentums is strictly forbidden as explained in 'help triggers'.
Combat momentum
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