How do you throw people, though?
Trow is an alternative to take down when person is standing. But I haven't found much difference between them. You have to be way bigger than your victim to toss it some tiles away. And even then your adventurer may decide to just throw enemy on the ground.
In a fact, while playing as otherwise unmodded bronze colossus I've seen wolves being thrown 3-4 tiles away and that's all. However some enemies exploded upon collision when they were thrown on the same tile. And I've once thrown wolf that has disappeared after that, really I couldn't find any remains and it couldn't get fly far it was a wood after all, and I was able to fast travel as if there weren't enemies.
Kicks and punches in the body or head proved to reliably send even night creatures to the meeting with the wall. (Usually deadly attacks to the head sometimes resulted in less fatal wound and several tiles of flight)
Some memories of that guy unrelated to topic:
Heck. He was an awesome guy. I've named him Arnie. He was a hero even in the eyes of goblins and kobolds. He killed ten titans and somewhere around twenty megabeasts along with forty creatures of the night without a scratch (unsurprisingly). But after some misunderstanding with demon lawgiver he was betrayed by his own men and later had both of his hand fractured by bolts. So after dumping all crap he had collected during his travels, he found rest in a volcano.