Tactics

"Tactics" are battle-commands often used in the Persona games. The player may issue Tactics to the A.I controlled party-member, to change their actions of course. Tactics are as following: "Fight Freely", "Show no Mercy", "Heal/Support," and others that allow direct control of party-members, or to inderectly control them by getting them to attacking only a specific target.

There are also several tactics that only some characters may use.

Aigis from Persona 3 and Metis from the expansion pack - Persona 3: FES - are the only characters who can use "Orgia Mode".

In games before Persona 4, however, the player was incapable of directly controlling his/her party-members, and could only issue tactics. They could only control the protagonist ("The Peirced Boy", Tatsuya, Maya, of Minato/Hamuko).