Bruce had been typically fighting guerrilla warfare up until Bannockburn. At Bannockburn, he used the massed ranks of the spears to defeat his opponent, the English. When one is outnumbered in a conventional setting they should use guerrilla warfare to gain an advantage and pick off weaknesses. Of course, the weakness of the pike became aware years later as although they could dispatch of cavalry, but when they faced halberd, the halberd was specifically designed to cut the end of a pike. Robert Bruce's ability to take guerrilla warfare to an open battlefield changed warfare forever. This is England, they about five times more populated at the time and their cavalry was absolutely terrifying and had only just been defeated for the first time at Stirling Bridge.
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