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(Typo in title intended).

But yeah, humans and orks make large use of cyborg parts to repair or replace lost limbs and the like. Presumably Eldar experience injuries, loss of limbs and eyes and the like, but they always look mega-pretty. Do they have any cyborg technology? Or it is elegant enough to look more or less natural, as opposed to humans?

Same question could apply to Tau, come to think of it.

I think it's just that their augments look natural or they just outright replace lost limbs. But Yriel has a metal eye that shoots lightning. It used to be very cool ingame.

Remember, wraithbone can be shaped to literally any need, and every Craftworld Eldar has enough latent psychic ability to control it once formed.

I know Haemonculi flat out regrow organs and backup bodies for themselves and other clients, so it's reasonable to consider that even Craftworld eldar have some capacity to restore lost body parts with either regrown organs/limbs or wraithbone prosthetics that mimic real body parts or hide such injuries with ease.

They probably do a bit of singing and think they have a new arm, then POP there it is.

The old Inquisitor game mentioned that Eldar "cybernetics" were of such fine worksmanship that they could be indistinguishable from the original parts they replaced.

Far more refined from the more clunky human tech.

Fierme Direstorm, one of the rogue trader space elf models had a bionic leg. Bit of an old reference obviously but it probably counts.

Eldar Medicine is also mostly psychic - health singers...

They can sing repairs into people as well as sing prosthetics into existence.

IMO the only way to reconcile the crappy Eldar survivability with their background is that their medical systems are so good very few actually die from battlefield injuries.

I imagine their psycho reactive armour reshapes around wounds to protect and repair it.

kingheff wrote:
Fierme Direstorm, one of the rogue trader space elf models had a bionic leg. Bit of an old reference obviously but it probably counts.

The Elder Rogue Trader is obviously the result of spending way too much time in the Imperium. That's why they have a visible cybernetic leg--they don't have access to actual Eldar health care.

Dark eldar most certainly do. Scourges graft wings into their bodies. Not sure how it works with swooping hawks.

 Argive wrote:
Dark eldar most certainly do. Scourges graft wings into their bodies. Not sure how it works with swooping hawks.

Swooping Hawks have jetpacks. They are not grafted.

At least not irrevocably. What "grafting" means gets a bit hazy when you share your psyche and spirit with the armor you wear and gear you carry.

Bharring wrote:

 Argive wrote:
Dark eldar most certainly do. Scourges graft wings into their bodies. Not sure how it works with swooping hawks.

Swooping Hawks have jetpacks. They are not grafted.

At least not irrevocably. What "grafting" means gets a bit hazy when you share your psyche and spirit with the armor you wear and gear you carry.

Fair.. I always assumed they were like small back back anti grav devices and are shaped like wings for asthetic/tradition/culture reasons..

I have a splendid idea for some corsair jump packers conversions...

 Argive wrote:

Bharring wrote:

 Argive wrote:
Dark eldar most certainly do. Scourges graft wings into their bodies. Not sure how it works with swooping hawks.

Swooping Hawks have jetpacks. They are not grafted.

At least not irrevocably. What "grafting" means gets a bit hazy when you share your psyche and spirit with the armor you wear and gear you carry.

Fair.. I always assumed they were like small back back anti grav devices and are shaped like wings for asthetic/tradition/culture reasons..

I have a splendid idea for some corsair jump packers conversions...

It's a bit of both

I'm in love with those rules. Those are what rules should look like.

Bharring wrote:
I'm in love with those rules. Those are what rules should look like.

IMO nothing has really eclipsed the 2nd ed Eldar codex in terms of rules and background. Sure they used generic equipment (lasguns and heavy plasma guns etc) but they just worked so much better. Modifiers to hit for moving fast, high initiative to win draws, warlocks and exarchs as heroes that could duel enemy characters. The issues with the exarch were mainly the combo and cost, not the concept.

I truly hate squad sergeant exarchs.

.... On topic, all the background suggests Eldar prosthetics tend to look very life-like, sans a bit of blush from real blood.

The bionic arm and leg wargear cards were usable by any army that could take wargear. Eldar bionics looked like real limbs abd were just as good as imperial ones in the strength department

 solkan wrote:

kingheff wrote:
Fierme Direstorm, one of the rogue trader space elf models had a bionic leg. Bit of an old reference obviously but it probably counts.

The Elder Rogue Trader is obviously the result of spending way too much time in the Imperium. That's why they have a visible cybernetic leg--they don't have access to actual Eldar health care.

I think it's probably due to the piratical look the original eldar sculpts, not that they were even called eldar at the time...

 chromedog wrote:
The old Inquisitor game mentioned that Eldar "cybernetics" were of such fine worksmanship that they could be indistinguishable from the original parts they replaced.

Aye, that's the way of it. The Craftworld Eldar want everything to be aesthetically pleasing and that includes replacement body parts. Corsairs might accept something that looks unnerving, if that's their desire, but they could just as well not spend any extra thought on it and just use the "standard" unobtrusive designs. Dark Eldar, well, they're a bunch of sick puppies and can range from one extreme to the next. A Wych like Lelith wouldn't accept anything less than a biological original or very finely made replacement, less appearance-obsessed might take what they can get - and the worse-than-normal unhinged ones like Haemonculi seem to go for "terrifying" over any other concerns.

BTW, Prince Yriel's dangerous eyepiece is a device worn over his left eye, not a bionic eye.

There WAS a corsair character for =I= that had a bionic eye (it was an "advanced" one, but still noticeable as a cybernetic, so probably one from an upper spire hive trader, rather than one of eldar make)