That's not really avenging your captain, though, is it? That's just selfishness and clan competition. Actually going out from your base in hordes to find and kill a group of people because they killed your captain isn't something that would come naturally to an orc.
There must be something else... I don't think they'd pretend, because there'd be no point, as you've said. Perhaps they regard the killers of their captain as a common threat? A group of men attacking some orcs, for example, would probably direct all stabs toward the leader that they could. The captain then dead and the assailants fleeing, the orcs would not feel sad about the captain's demise at all. But it would make them angry. An ordinary rank-and-file member of the orc band is completely expendable; the captain is rather more important in a practical sense, usually the strongest of the orcs under him and well-known and feared by all of them. If he was killed, all the orcs would, perhaps, recognise that as a direct insult and harm to the orcs in general and be incited to take attacking measures.
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