I prefer being able to take out my enemy. 5 WE per city can definitely defend both forked cities, but they won't be able to destroy the SoD. Of course if stacks generally are either all knights or no knights, then BE are no more useful than WE are. Anyway, the main reason why I suggested Khmer as an option was not the BE but +1 food from Aqueduct replacement. Bonus food is always nice and Khmer even gets it relatively early on.
BTW, if we get our first pick early on I suggest that we pick leader first. IMO, there are enough civs that have decent uniques, but the number of financial leaders is limited.
BTW, if we get our first pick early on I suggest that we pick leader first. IMO, there are enough civs that have decent uniques, but the number of financial leaders is limited.