Manual game - missing first turn

I suppose I may find out soon enough, but for future reference on the chance that this newbie gets a clue and drops his armies in the next 12 hours, what happens in a manual deployment game when a player misses his first turn. Are his troops just deployed as if it were an automatic game, or does something else happen with his territories? I'm in a game http://www.conquerclub.com/game.php?game=6381615 with THREE newbies, but two of them have deployed. IF the remaining player deadbeats, I am wondering if his initial territories will serve as strategic barriers/defenses with 3 neutral armies or something different. I want to plan accordingly.