I need help understanding what added attack time does

I know that when you add 1, 2, 3 or 4 hours to your attack times that he gains you get from that attack increases according to the amount added. My question is this:
Does the game consider things like Peasants Killed or Buildings Burned as GAINS?
Does the added attack times increase the # of Pezzies you kill in a Massacre or the land you destroy in a Raze Attack?
Like if I didn't add any time to the Massacre I did and it killed 1000 people, then if I had added 1 hour to the attack time, would it have killed more than 1000 people? And, if so, does that amount killed go up as you add more hours to the Attack time?
My main reason for asking is because I thought the feature of adding or subtracting time to or from an attack was to ensure that you had an easier time playing the game related to your real life. It was done so you could adjust the return times of armies so you didn't have to set alarms or miss meetings just to play the game. If the things I asked about are answered in the affirmative, then that changes to whole purpose of changing attack times. You can use this feature to really hammer a Kingdom right before you know they are going to Withdraw. By adding 4 hours, you get more gains and you are covered under the EOWCF protections. That is just 1 example. There are many situations where this feature can and is being used for other reasons than to make the game more accommodating to your real life.

Massacres - yes
Raze - I'm not sure

You can go ahead and add +4 hours on your attack when you think they're going to withdraw.. however it may not be clever to do so. If you think about it they could in the worst case then wave you back two times and still withdraw before your armies are back. Adding +4h to the last wave before withdrawing.

Of course if you're warring an inactive/uncoordinated ghetto kingdom then you can basically get away with almost anything but generally it's only save to add those +4 hours when you're the kingdom that is going to withdraw.

*I guess* you could add +4h as the winning kingdom to try and lure your opponent into prolonging the conflict to gather more honor on your T/M provinces if that's your thing. My feeling is that if you are so dominant that you should start looking for stronger opponents.

@JackRabbit -

Adding +4 just before war ends is quite common, but for reasons TommyB addressed, it is not always safe to do so. Keep in mind when adding time to your attacks that your military takes higher losses, and when removing time, your targets military takes less losses. There are some situations where +4 makes sense outside of managing real life time, but that's what it's really there for.

EDIT: I'm having a hard time finding the info to support the fluctuation in troop losses when adding/subtracting time. Can anyone help me out?

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Originally Posted by TommyB

*I guess* you could add +4h as the winning kingdom to try and lure your opponent into prolonging the conflict to gather more honor on your T/M provinces if that's your thing. My feeling is that if you are so dominant that you should start looking for stronger opponents.

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Sometimes you don't know the degree to which you out played your opponent. In a competitive game where you're always looking for a weakness to exploit, finding "stronger" opponents is generally not conducive to your goal. Even players in the top KDs look for noobs who can't/won't retaliate when searching for that #1 spot on the charts.

Some of this helped and some of it didn't. What I really wanted to know was if the addition to attack times caused whatever would normally happen in your attack, to be increased?

For each type of attack, does this happen??
1. TM- +hours=More Acres Gained
2. Conquest- +hours=More Acres Gained
3. Raze- +hours= More Acres destroyed(More Buildings destroyed, in War)
4. Plunder- +hours= More Resources Stolen
5. Learn- +hours= More Books Stolen
6. Massacre- +hours= More Peasants, Thieves and Wizards Killed

I know that it would not change the amount of Acres returned to you in an Ambush Attack.
But can someone please answer me on each of the attack types?
Also, thank you for letting me know about Troop Losses. I had no idea that to Increase hours Increased you Troop Losses and to Decrease hours Decreased the enemies Troop Losses. That is something I will keep in mind.

Yes to all of those, with the possible exception of Raze, which I think it increases, but since it's a little wacky with mods I'm not totally sure

Is there a chart that shows the percent in time adjustments?

It depends on what your attack time is without the + time. The bigger the impact it has on your attack time, the bigger the gain/penalty is.

On a 16 hour attack, -2 hours won't be too bad. On a 6 hour attack, -2 hours will make it totally not worth it.

There has got to be percents?

Its displayed ingame on your war room.

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It depends on what your attack time is without the + time. The bigger the impact it has on your attack time, the bigger the gain/penalty is.

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Has this been tested? Or do you have the numbers?

The numbers are on your war room.

Adding +4 to end of war hits is egregious and will result in 50 page forum threads, be very careful...

Somewhere in a forgotten thread I had (rough) calculations on gain mods for added/subtracted hours, which seem to hold true.

Troop losses on target are reduced for -hours by the same factor as gains afaik. As far as I knew added hours did not increase losses.

There are a lot of situations where +hours make sense. If you don't need the attack time for whatever reason, might as well take extra gains. -hours is almost never worth it unless there is a very good reason. Added hours do affect massacre. Raze is unknown. Added hours don't affect Ambush and -hours cannot be used on ambush attacks.

Kinda OP these +hours can become. Dwarf hitting with 9 hour attack time. +3 hours added +20% gains --> seems kinda OP if you ask me. Has anyone ever tried Orc/Tactician wtih 25% rax?