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For now, moving into the forest is fine. It means we don't have surprise knight blobs jamming up our asses and that's good enough for a night. When it comes to the actual second day of battle, however, we ought to account for how the enemy would deal with this- and unfortunately I think we're fucked if we just hide out in the woods, because what I'd do were I them is use my superiority of numbers and close combat infantry to go to a place where the approach is covered by yet more woods, then simply march into range. The Famiglia, if need be, can even get in on the action by dismounting. Over a thousand armored swordsmen, no matter their lack of specialization and incomplete kit, is far too many to discount.
So I have two preliminary outlines laid out. These aren't proposals yet, I imagine that comes later. One is a half-in half-out approach, utilizing the proven to be effective wagons- and big ass corpse piles. The flanks are held against the famiglia's charge by trees, while the other angles bristle with pikes and guns.
The second is more out there, and completely out of the forest- but utilizing the even more powerful geography of a river. If our enemy abandons their position on the other side of the river entirely, the Carsa becomes not water but a wall. If we're to make ourselves a fortress to be besieged, this would actually be stronger a position than the forest to take. Vulnerable to artillery, yes, but as far as we know, they have none. There's a lot of "as far as we know" going on, in context, I'd guess that Alessandro is basically guessing since renaissance era military intelligence lacks reconnaissance aircraft and radio interception.
There's plenty of other ways to go about this, but as far as I'm concerned, I think hiding entirely in the woods would be a mistake since we simply don't have the numbers to cover every approach, and our sole advantage is our firepower so it'd be a waste not to use our improvised fortifications to maximize its effective angles.
