General's cry and retaliation skills

Hey,
I'm really excited for the retaliation skills. However, there is one thing (at least) I don't understand.
There is no clear limitation of using those with general's cry, but how will it work? Will the cooldowns be affected by the block events? How this will be affected by the passive nodes for retaliation?

The mirage warriors *use* a linked skill.

If no linked skill is not usable, they can't use it.

Interesting.
But I think they can use attacks with cooldowns, which is similar.
Not sure this is correct...