If you play
AD&D, there is 2e BattlleSystem Skirmish: 2e
AD&D rules-based miniatures game. It reduces combat to a fast, and deadly, simple set of rules.
If interested, it can be purchased as a
PDF, for $4.99, off of DriveThruRPG.com. It has a painting guide, which is old, and dated, but still useful to a beginner. To be honest, you will want/need the
2e RPG core books, if you want to dive deep into it, but these are also available as PDF's, and as POD's, on DriveThruRPG.
For a Fighter/Warrior, they get 1 Hit (Hit Point) per level, so a 15th level Fighter, has 15 Hits, while a 4th Level Fighter only has 4 Hits. Every successful Hit, causes 1 Hit of damage, so low-level characters and monsters will expire, quickly! High Level Warriors also get multiple attacker per Round...
Non-Warrior characters have fewer Hits/Level. The
RPG aspect is still there, in full force. It drastically simplifies, and speeds up, combat resolution.
It really focuses on the miniatures, and the tabletop terrain, pretty much eliminating
Theater of the Mind.
The 2e
BS Skirmishes game was quite well done, but few people played it. I've run a few one-off games, not using
RPG PC's. I just wanted to test drive the game, to see what it was like. It was actually a lot of fun. It was decidedly more
Miniatures Gaming, rather than
RPG gaming. I used full 3D terrain, and a number of miniatures. I had a group of heroes going against Driders, Trolls, and Giants, as servants for a Red Dragon. The heroes actually whooped the Dragon, killing it. It was a lot of fun. My players had never experienced a full terrain and miniatures game, that was not a mass battles game, before. They quite enjoyed it. Cheers!