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How does the first scenario's "all troops begin the game in reserves" thing affect chaos daemons? Does the first half of the army have to consist of all non-troop choices? Do they divide it however they want but only non-troops arrive the first turn?

What about drop pod tac squads and Infiltrators?

I did not notice that line before. That's interesting. Wouldn't effect demons or drop pods, as they're starting in reserve anyways so they can Deepstrike. It would prevent you from putting down Infiltrators however.

If I fight a Green Tide, I hope it's in the first round!

Wouldn't it affect daemons? They don't start in reserves - half of them deepstrike on turn 1, the rest are in reserves. Same with marine drop pods.

Even the guys who come in on turn one are considered to be held in reserves.

Is it just me, or does this scenario primarily affect ork hordes more then anyone else? Guard is also hammered by this one potentially (unless the are a dropping army).

Spellbound, army special rules override mission/deployment special rules. Daemons always deploy via Daemonic Assault, its one of thier special rules. It doesn't matter what the deployment type is, Daemons always deploy the same way. Half their army is always starts in reserve (specifically says that this happens even if the scenario doesn't allow reserves).

No, the ENTIRE Demon army starts in reserve. They just have a special rule that brings in half of it turn one without rolling.