@willbont Have you tried disabling GPU Skinning? What about switching from OpenGL to Vulkan rendering (if your GPU supports it)?
Are there any warnings or errors in the game logs?
The below can't be true, as mods are not found within the game's root directory. They are installed in your My Documents/My Games/0ad path.
Delenda Est is not compatible with A27, and because of that I haven't enabled it at all. my version of A26 was deleted a while ago, along with the Delenda Est mod within it. I was trying to fix a bug with the Atlas scenario editor by deleting v26, but it ended up not working. The current issue is with the A28 version, I cannot navigate around due to the missing texts on its interface nor play the game at all.
@willbont
Maybe you need to download again the last version of Delenda Est here? And make sure you delete the old folder from your mod folder before installing it.