Arm Prosthetic

[Maxim]

Cant find a purpose for it. It only adds strength of 1.
It's not easy to find, one location is a medical facility.

It takes up a slot where I could add boxing gloves which are way more common / easy to find.
Boxing gloves give strength of 1 AND speed of 1.

Any opinions on the arm prosthetic?
My opinion is "a missing arm should not allow boxing gloves until an arm prosthetic is installed".

However, the leg prosthetic is obvious. It adds a speed of 1.
Using it allows full motion of two hexes instead of one when missing a leg.
But, similarly, the missing leg should not allow speedy sneaker shoes until a leg prosthetic is installed.

The little white man icon has a black arm or leg when missing one of those body parts, and it turns grey when a prosthetic is used in the proper slot.
(In case you didnt notice the icon changes.).

[Rooster1969]

If you get bitten in the arm and get it amputated, it will take up one slot and allow strength to go over 1. Otherwise, nothing you do will increase str.

If you lose a leg it brings move back up to 2. Otherwise entire party suffers and can only move 1

[Dorok]

No it's just a STR penalty, not STR fixed to 1. It's -2 STR if I remind well, so the arm prothesis is like +2 STR but there are better items, hence it can be useful a time but not when you have better.

EDIT: But a good option is also to build the character for STR 1 and no bother gives it any STR bonus or until very very late through attribute increase. It can works for a character specialized for long range. But as you don't choose the character, it's a bit rare.