Well I was wanting to cancel the attack because it seemed too risky to attack while the server was so unstable, but since I'd already launched half the attack I didnt have much choice. But anyway, it seemed to have stablised during the 15 minutes since I sent this thread; I was sending out and recalling attacks every minute or so and they were working fine.
When it came closer to the time to send my clearing wave, I decided to send it 20 seconds early just to insure myself against the server playing up again, but somehow it seems to have jumped almost 40 seconds back in time, and as a result I'm going to lose 4 nobles. Nice work!