Played a game last night (Domination on Hard with 4 players, no newbies) and on two occasions we got to the end of the Timed Phase and realised we had only had two Research tasks given to us.
Was my Central Officer missing things and there are always 3 Research tasks or does having UFOs in orbit cause some Research tasks to be dropped from that turn?
I was pretty sure you always got the same tasks, just something in different orders once UFOs start scrambling stuff up and thus my CO was at fault.
Incidentally we failed at the final hurdle - got to the Final Mission, completed the first two tasks and then realised the SL hadn't assigned a soldier that could attempt the final task. Doh! We then got massively overwhelmed by UFOs the next turn...the CO went through 3 assign UFOs without being able to place any as all where already on the board!