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  The Rapid Redeployment Force, or to give it’s full Tau
  military title, the ‘Objective Oriented Rapid Redeployment
  Detachment’, was first used by the Tau during the Dal’yth
  Counter Attack. Under pressure from the ground forces of
  the Imperium’s Damocles Gulf Crusade, the Tau, led by the
  celebrated Commander Puretide, were forced to pull back a
  large number of ground troops. As the Fire Warriors at the
  frontline lacked their own transports, Puretide ordered a
  number of other cadres to send in their Devilfish. These
  swept in upon the stranded Fire Warriors’ positions and
  picked them up, before conducting a wide sweep of the
  battlefield that brought them within a hundred metres of
  the Imperium army’s frontline command centre.
  Disembarking, the Fire Warriors laid down a withering hail
  of pulse rifle fire, forcing the Imperial Guard staff officers
  manning the post to fall back in disarray. Not only were the
  beleaguered Fire Warriors rescued, but their timely
  redeployment turned the tide at that sector of the
  battlefield.
  After the Damocles Gulf Crusade’s withdrawal, Fire Caste
  High Command instigated a number of changes to the Tau
  military, each the result of the costly lessons of the conflict.
  Not least among them was the formalisation of the Rapid
  Redeployment Force, a formation that can, as at the Dal’yth
  Counter Attack, snatch victory from the jaws of defeat if
  committed at the correct moment by a wise commander.
  TAU RAPID REDEPLOYMENT FORCE POINTS: 100 + MODELS
  FORMATION:
  3+ Devilfish
  One Devilfish must be designated as the command tank.
  SPECIAL RULES
  Rapid Redeployment: To make a rapid redeployment, proceed as follows. The entire formation makes a Strategic Redeployment
  as per the strategic asset of the same name, carrying any Fire Warrior and Pathfinder teams that were already embarked. The
  restrictions regarding not moving within 12” of an enemy and not being able to fire apply only to the Devilfish. Transported teams
  may disembark, bringing them within 12” of the enemy, and may fire their weapons (counting as having moved).
  Strike Force: All Devilfish in the Rapid Redeployment Force must be deployed within 12” of the command Devilfish, or, if coming
  on from reserve, they must enter the table within 12” of the point entered by the command Devilfish.
  TAU DEVILFISH
  COMMAND VEHICLE
  TAU DEVILFISH
  TAU DEVILFISH
  Ennobled Sacrifice
  Truth In Adversity
  Vigilant Law
  
SOURCE: textdata/thevault/Warhammer/40k/1st-8th Editions (Prior)/5th Edition (2008)/Apocalypse Datasheets/40k 5e - Tau - Rapid Redeployment Force.pdf