“Art of throwing” is still practically meaningless. Here’s a better one.
Karakuri, which is the traditional Japanese term for clever mechanical devices. In medieval times, Japan was famous for making and possibly inventing small mechanical crafts like the folding fan and the folding umbrella (“karakuri kasa”, shortened to “karakasa”) - devices with packing/unpacking processes, which is precisely what this UT does.
HOWEVER, so far the AoE2 team seems to have followed a guideline similar to some mainstream game devs (I think StarCraft 2 was like that): never re-theme an item without a complete gameplay change. (A complete gameplay change without re-theming, however, is allowed.)
If you read the list of defunct UTs, you can see that:
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Ten out of ten UTs that received name changes have been functionally replaced.
That’s 100%. -
Zero UTs have been renamed solely for historical accuracy.
That’s 0%. -
The new names are still a mixed bag at best. “Citadels” is flavorless; “Bogsveigar” might be actively doing harm by polluting the internet with a pseudo-intellectual use of Old Norse that’s actually wrong, in a way a lot more insidious than “Thirisadai”.
The odds are not exactly stacked on your side. 