Daz,

I agree with almost everything you say, except that, in my view, Bruce didn't really follow Wallace's example. Wallace was stuck in the mindset that armies needed to meet for pitch battles and "do war" the gentlemen's way. Bruce, ironically of far "nobler" blood, came up with the idea of fighting what was essentially a guerilla, and ungentlemanly, war against the English and the Comyn faction. Further, Bruce developped the strategy of knocking down castles that might fall back into English or Comyn control.

I guess my point is that it is well and good that Wallace developped the pike strategy to give infantry a means to with stand cavalry. But Bruce would never have been triumphant if he merely imitated Wallace. A lone Bruce in Craigencaillie with a pike would not have lasted long. Bruce had to innovate far beyond Wallace's tactics, in order to be successful.