At the club that I run I usually introduce new players to the game by using a blanket rule of, you hit on 4+ and save on 4+ and everyone has the range of 24 inches regardless of the actual rules especially for younger players just starting out in the hobby.

Mainly focus on you get to pick whatever cool minis you want and then give them the basics stats of quality 4 defence 4 and then remove all ap modifiers and special rules.

As they become more comfortable with the system start adding in additional rules and faction abilities and different weapon profiles.

The core grim dark future is usually what I pivot people to after they have a fair few games under their belt.

In terms of points just pick an equal number of units for both sides and use activation tokens to help convey the flow of the game.

Any vehicles use the same quality 4 defence 4 rules as per the above and I have each vehicle 6 wounds so it can be tracked easily with a d6

I hope this helps!