Wireless communications are often affected by outage events caused by fading and interference. This paper focuses on investigating the communication throughput and latency in a line-topology, multi-hop network where outages may occur on network links. We focus on three types of intermediate network node schemes: random linear network coding (RLNC), store-and-forward (SF), and hop-by-hop retransmission. The analytical formulas for the maximum throughput and the end-to-end latency are provided for each scheme. To gain a more explicit understanding, we conducted a scalability analysis of the maximum throughput and latency as the network length $L$ increases. We observed that the same order of throughput/latency holds across a wide range of outage functions for each scheme. Specifically, the SF scheme achieves at most $\Theta(\frac{1}{L})$ throughput, while retransmission and RLNC achieve a constant throughput. However, the retransmission scheme relies on ideal feedback, which is rarely satisfied in practice, whereas RLNC does not. We conducted latency comparisons among various schemes under several constraints regarding the volume of data for transmission.