I'm going to my first Bolt Action Tournament!

I'm going to my first Bolt Action Tournament! 

Small Unit Tactics IV –A Day Bolt Action Tournament 

Notes for myself:
• Venue: The Gaming Arena
• Date: Saturday 8th of March
• 850-point lists
• 14 order dice maximum.

• All armies for this event should be no larger than 850 points.
• A maximum of 14 order dice.
• Must include one Rifle Platoon but may include as many Rifle platoons as you wish.
• Maximum of 1 of each other platoon types (i.e. armoured, engineer, heavy weapons, etc)
• 1 ‘required’ unit from other platoon types may be taken without needing to take the full
platoon, see the ‘Support’ section below for details.
• Lists of 10 order dice or less will start with a bonus 5 Tournament Points.
• No MLRS will be permitted at this event, i.e. Nebelwerfers, Katyushas, etc.
• Maximum 1 Forward Observer (air or artillery) per list.
• Players must take their list out of the relevant ‘Armies of…’ if it has been released so far.
Support

One ‘required’ unit from each type of non-Rifle Platoon may be taken as ‘support’ for your force from a platoon you have not taken as part of your army. For example, you could take a Vehicle from  an Armoured Platoon and a Machine Gun Team from a Heavy Weapons Platoon.

You would not be able to take a Flamethrower team from an Engineer platoon as it’s not a required unit for that platoon.

Vehicles taken in this manner cannot be given the ‘Command Vehicle’ special rule and only benefit from that rule if they have it in their profile to begin with.

Painting and Modelling
All models must be 28mm in scale, resemble the units they are intended to represent and comply with the ‘What You See Is What You Get’ principle.

It is expected that you will bring:
• Warlord order dice (rounded edges preferred) and enough six-sided dice to play the game.
• 3 circular objective markers (either 40mm or 25mm)
• A tape measure.
• The rulebook and relevant “Armies of…” book or list if it has been released.
• Pin markers.
• An appropriate dice bag.
• A copy of your army list that your opponent can reference

Missions
We will be playing the following scenarios, noting that it will not necessarily be in this order on the day:
• Supply Drop (Bolt Action Alliance 2023 Missions Pack)
• The Thin Red Line (Bolt Action Alliance 2023 Missions Pack)
• Penetrating Strike (From Cancon’s Mission Pack)
Note that for The Thin Red Line, objectives will count as ‘sticky’ per the V3 rulebook.
Supply Drop will be amended so that the drop occurs at the beginning of turn 3, not 4 as written.

Now to theorycraft endlessly an 850 point army! 

All 3 missions require mobility - either to capture 6 objectives in the middle with 50% of units in reserve turn 1, capture 3 objectives that come down turn 3 with 50% of units in reserve turn 1 , or get units into the enemy deployment zone with up to 50% of units in reserve (or not).