Stickered Stand-ups or monochrome pawns?

For some reason, I would prefer a wooden pawn over plastic. There's something about wood that says "classy" and plastic that says "cheap". But we have an all wood house (no vinyl siding or windows nor PVC porch/fencing on the property)...go figure!

Then you can't use these babies:

https://www.thegamecrafter.com/parts/sticker-pawn-blue

Those are pretty awesome PAWNS if you ask me... Add the stickers and it really makes for an awesome game.

Look at this example:

https://www.thegamecrafter.com/publish/product/PawnSticker

Now what do you have to say about stickers and pawns, eh?!?! Just kidding but I think they look pretty cool!

I much prefer "plain" wood pawns and meeples over anything plastic that requires applying stickers. I also prefer them over printed cardboard standees, though even those are better than stickered plastic.

Stickers applied to plastic screams 80's Hasbro/Milton Bradley era, roll and move games and feels cheap these days.

If you are doing plastic you almost need to consider full on 3d miniatures, and that's going to set you back a good bit more than 30cents each.

Would chipboard standees a la Legends of Andor be an option as opposed to stickered standees? Frankly, whether wooden pawns or chipboard standees would be better really depends on the style of the rest of the game. A wooden pawn can feel very out of place and weird in a strongly Ameritrash feel game, for example.

As far as 3d minis go the largest costs tend to be the once per production run cost of setting up the mold. The larger the production order is the less cost prohibitive it is. That's why a lot of kickstarters will put them as a stretch goal. I haven't done enough research yet to get into specific costs but I know PandaGM won't do minis at all until you hit production runs of at least 2500.