Just wanted to try my first campaign on brutal since I played Telepath tactics very well, but I'm finding the prices of everything on Brutal to be just a little too much. Unless you only recruit the worst possible characters costing 200-300 each (which isn't even always possible, since there might only be 2-3 of them available to hire), then your salary is going to be 2000+ aura (every two weeks), leaving you with essentially zero money to buy food, healing items or more equipment, since weapons will break. And forget about armor, you literally cannot afford armor. And since each action takes a whole day, if you buy anything, you're also missing out on fighting that day and not making money.

And considering some hires have a salary of 700 or more, if you want even one or two good units at the start, it's possible to not even have enough money to hire 6 units which is the minimum requirement to start.

I think maybe either salaries should be lowered slightly, or I have an alternate suggestion below:

A different change could be that each even doesn't take up the whole day, but half the day, meaning you could shop, then fight, or fight twice a day for more money. However, if you do two actions in a day, your troops will be tired and lose 1 morale from exhaustion.