TJS
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I suspect that it's a vague notion of what they would want to do, but filtered badly through an overly literal mode of thinking. A "Horde" of orcs could make for a cinematic combat in lots of ways, -maybe you have to hold a narrow pass or passageway - maybe fight your way through the horde to kill their general and turn the tide of a battle - maybe you tried to sneak passed them and screwed up badly and now the whole horde is after you.I wouldn't run a fight like that. First off, the PCs will just outright lose through sheer attrition. So it's just a question if how many orcs they take with them.
Second, there's a physical limit for how many orcs can gang up on a PC. It might vary by system, but 6 is a reasonable number. So rolling 100 attacks is pointless.
But any fight where it's 20 and on, one v the entire football team with substitutes is one you shouldn't be able to win.
Of course in all of those there would be a goal more interesting then "kill one hundred orcs" and I would not handle any of those situations with a straightforward combat with each orc as a discrete individual unit.