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My buddy plays orks and rolling those 80 or more dice at a time can be a bit of a headache. Normally we break it down into sets of 20 dice, and the player not making the rolls keeps count of hits etc.

For example, my buddy rolls 20 dice, separates successes and failures. I keep track of successes, and he rolls again. Repeat as many times as needed. This can be done pretty quickly, and without the mayhem of 80 dice rolling on the board at once.

The way I read the story was that the models getting knocked down was a metaphor for being killed by the first batch of dice...

He didn't actually hit someone's models, did he?

I'd be a bit miffed if someone was hitting my models with dice. Thats a lot of hours of painting to chip away.